College of Public Health
March 7, 2011
The College of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC), has been awarded a $145,000 grant by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) over the next two years to study community level factors that might contribute to disparities in colorectal cancer screening. Community factors that might influence screening include demographic…
February 22, 2011
Raquel Qualls-Hampton, PhD, MS, assistant Epidemiology professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) College of Public Health, has been selected as one of eight recipients for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant funding on the New Connections (NC) Program, Vulnerable Populations Team, to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate…
February 14, 2011
Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD, College of Public Health associate professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Community Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, recently led a podcast for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, discussing the principal factors contributing to racial and ethnic health disparities in the U.S.…
January 26, 2011
Grant funds totaling $135,372 have been awarded to the University of North Texas Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) College of Public Health and Center for Community Health to conduct the first phase of a project called the "Healthy Moms-Healthy Babies Initiative." Funding is through a payment the Health Science Center received from a foundation that supported…
January 19, 2011
Drs. Jim Stimpson, Raquel Qualls-Hampton and Martha Felini (pictured from left with Dean Richard Kurz, far right) were recently honored by the University of North Texas Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) College of Public Health as "rising stars" at a recent UNTHSC Faculty Assembly. Dr. Stimpson was recognized in the Research category, Dr. Qualls-Hampton was honored…
November 16, 2010
The College of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, welcomes Youcheng Liu, MD, ScD, MPH, as associate professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Lakshmi Balasubramanian, PhD, as assistant professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Dr. Liu joins UNTHSC from…
November 8, 2010
Fernando Wilson, PhD, a health economist and assistant professor in the department of health management and policy in the College of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas, has been named the director of health services and policy research for The Osteopathic Research Center (ORC) at UNTHSC.…
November 2, 2010
Dr. Richard Kurz, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, has been appointed by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) to serve on the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE). Board members guide the NBPHE in its mission to increase recognition…
October 5, 2010
University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) College of Public Health professors Fernando Wilson, PhD, and Jim Stimpson, PhD, have recently released a report in the American Journal of Public Health showing that texting while driving resulted in an estimated 16,000 fatalities in the U.S. from 2001 to 2007. The report indicates that a…
September 28, 2010
The UNTHSC College of Public Health (SPH) is part of a consortium with two other schools - Texas A&M Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health and University of Texas College of Public Health at Houston - on two recent training and learning grants. The Texas Public Health Training Center (TPHTC), a workforce development…
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