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December 16, 2019 • Behavioral and Community Health, Community, Our People, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker For decades, the image of worn-out shoe leather with a prominent hole in the bottom has served as a visual representation of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) disease detectives who travel the world investigating outbreaks that threaten the public’s health. For 65 years and counting, these officers have been globally recognized…
December 16, 2019 • Behavioral and Community Health, Center for Community Health, Community, Education, Public Health, Safercare Texas
By Jan Jarvis “Squeezing,” shouted Kim Nguyen as she hugged herself as tightly as possible and encouraged the roomful of second-graders to do the same. “That’s what your airways are doing during an asthma attack,” said Nguyen, Project Coordinator for SaferCare Texas, a department of UNT Health Science Center dedicated to improving the quality and…
December 9, 2019 • Behavioral and Community Health, Community, Family Medicine, Patient Care, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta It was a frigid morning in the parking lot of W.J. Turner Elementary School when a mother went knocking on a door of an RV parked at the school. She was looking for help for her 6-year-old son, who has been battling a nasty strain of strep throat. And she found it…
December 3, 2019 • Behavioral and Community Health, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Our People
By Steven Bartolotta It began on a Tuesday with a flight from DFW to Columbus, Ohio. A 90-minute drive to Athens, Ohio, and a day spent discussing research at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, then back to Columbus the next day, a flight to Washington, D.C., that night, meetings with members of…
June 25, 2014 • Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health
Dennis Thombs, PhD This fall, UNT Health Science Center will introduce a new Master of Public Health (MPH) degree concentration in Maternal and Child Health. "Demand for this program has been high," said Dennis Thombs, PhD, Chair of Behavioral and Community Health and director of the new program. "This program prepares students for a…
June 16, 2014 • Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health
A community health expert from UNT Health Science Center traveled to Mexico last month to address an international conference on the growing problem of childhood obesity and related health concerns. Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health, was a featured speaker at the 1st International Childhood Obesity Forum and Diabetes Conference at…
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