College of Public Health News

By Sally Crocker The College of Public Health hosted its second annual Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Health Disparities Poster Symposium, featuring more than 30 graduate student poster presentations from five courses in the public health core curriculum: Introduction to MCH, Introduction to Health Disparities, Human Sexuality and Reproductive Health, MCH Epidemiology and Epidemiology. […]

Sally Crocker, Associate Director, Academic Communications, for the HSC College of Public Health, has recently won two new writing awards on behalf of HSC: A Platinum Award from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals’ (AMCP) annual, international MarCom Awards competition. MarCom Awards honors excellence in marketing and communication while recognizing the creativity and hard […]

By Sally Crocker The power of public health was evident at a recent HSC-hosted event to welcome the new Dean of the College of Public Health, Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, and engage with local public health experts to gain their perspectives on building a healthier North Texas community. The highly successful event was well attended and […]

By Sally Crocker Four years ago, the National Institutes of Health introduced the unprecedented HEAL Initiative to address the nation’s public health crisis of opioid misuse, addiction and overdose. More than $2 billion has been invested in 1,000 research projects to date, spanning basic and clinical research to prevention and implementation science. For the last […]

By Sally Crocker Noah Peeri, PhD, MPH, a recent graduate of The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s College of Public Health, has achieved a major milestone by publishing an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology just months after completing his graduate degree. This is his first postdoctoral publication, and […]