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October 21, 2022 • Health Disparities Campaign AIM-AHEAD Connect, AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, Fellowship in Leadership Program, Health disparities,
Dr. Teresa Wagner recently was selected to be part of the first cohort for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity — AIM-AHEAD — Fellowship in Leadership program. Wagner is an assistant professor in lifestyle health sciences at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and…
July 28, 2021 • Community, Health Disparities Campaign, Public Health, Safercare Texas
By Alex Branch As Titus County grew into a COVID-19 hot spot last summer, Terry Scoggin realized the rural hospital he leads needed to make some big changes. The east Texas county is 40 percent Hispanic — many drawn there by jobs in the manufacturing and food processing industry — but Titus Regional Medical Center lacked the…
July 9, 2021 • Community, COVID-19, Health Disparities Campaign, Patient Care, Public Health
By Diane Smith-Pinckney People find shelter from their homelessness during the day at the True Worth complex that sits southeast of downtown Fort Worth. They can shower, grab lunch and create a resume. On June 21, the homeless who stopped at True Worth received COVID-19 vaccines. The day shelter’s lobby served as a COVID-19 vaccine clinic staffed by health care providers and employees from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at…
June 14, 2021 • Health Disparities Campaign, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta The PRECISION Pain Research Registry at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth has identified important racial disparities in pain management that became more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its study recently published in the special COVID-19 supplement to the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine…
June 8, 2021 • Health Disparities Campaign, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker He didn’t know it at the time, but when Dr. Scott Walters was growing up in San Diego in the mid 1980s, a next-door neighbor was concealing a homemade meth lab just across the fence and mere steps away from his bedroom window. For quite some time, concerned parents in his family’s…
June 4, 2021 • Health Disparities Campaign, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta A unique and innovative program called “Project ECHO” is allowing HSC experts to provide training, mentoring and support to physicians who practice specialty care in rural and underserved communities. The program, which started through part of the “WE HAIL” grant that HSC received in 2019, is an international and national forum for…
May 28, 2021 • Clinical Practice Group, Health Disparities Campaign, Patient Care, Safercare Texas
By Katie Shanklin From limited resources to lack of internet access, living in rural areas can be challenging. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, HSC and one rural North Texas community’s public library teamed up to help keep residents healthy. According to the CDC, about 46 million Americans live in rural areas, experiencing long-standing systemic health and social…
May 28, 2021 • Education, Health Disparities Campaign, Our People, Texas Center for Health Disparities
By Alex Branch The University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC) at Fort Worth will significantly expand a program that creates diversity in the medical and biomedical sciences fields thanks to a $3.9 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Cancer disproportionally affects certain races and ethnicities, creating a disparity in diagnosis and outcomes among…
May 19, 2021 • Community, Health Disparities Campaign, Our People, Texas Center for Health Disparities
By Diane Smith-Pinckney The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) is working with the Texas Community Engagement Research Alliance (CEAL), the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) to host the 16th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities. The event, titled “Community Approaches to Health Equity,”…
May 18, 2021 • Community, COVID-19, Health Disparities Campaign, Public Health
By Sarah Hopkins When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, HSC sprang into action by offering tangible solutions to Tarrant County’s urgent health care needs. HSC swiftly opened the first COVID-19 testing location in all of Tarrant County for frontline responders. It didn’t stop there — HSC team members also opened several testing and vaccination sites, staffed a COVID-19 information line, performed contact tracing, distributed food to families in need, donated masks, manufactured solutions essential…
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