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November 12, 2025 • College of Public Health fellowship, health administration, MHA,
Ashley Mesch, a second-year Master of Health Administration student in UNT Health Fort Worth's College of Public Health was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Next summer, she kicks off her fellowship with Children’s Health Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. The Christopher J. Durovich Administrative Fellowship which begins July 2026 provides health care professionals…
November 10, 2025 • College of Public Health cph, Distinguished fellow,
Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, dean of the College of Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth, has been accepted as a Distinguished Fellow of the Public Health Academy within the National Academies of Practice, Class of 2026. The National Academies of Practice is an interdisciplinary organization that brings together leading health professionals committed to advancing collaboration and transforming interprofessional…
October 27, 2025 • College of Public Health case competition, MHA, MPH,
For the second year in a row, the Master of Health Administration team at UNT Health Fort Worth took home the first-place prize for a student-led case competition sponsored by the North Texas chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. The national competition hosts a range of teams from schools across the nation with…
October 9, 2025 • College of Public Health disaster preparedness, energy burden, kidney disease,
Dr. Kai Zhang, professor of population and community health in the UNT Health College of Public Health, recently served as a co-corresponding author of two publications addressing the emerging environmental and social factors of the year. Zhang, whose research focuses on exploring the health effects of environmental and social determinants (i.e., disasters, air pollution, built…
October 1, 2025 • College of Public Health certificate, cph, public health,
Earning a professional certification is a major achievement, but creating one is an even bigger challenge. Dr. Teresa Wagner, an associate professor at UNT Health Fort Worth’s College of Public Health, has done both. Dr. Wagner co-developed a new certification focused on clinical health equity, working alongside the globally recognized Institute for Healthcare Improvement. The…
September 22, 2025 • College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, College of Health Professions, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health, Community Madeleine Lambert, Roxanne Zascavage, Summer Academy of Health Science, Tarrant County College,
This summer, 24 Tarrant County College students spent five weeks immersed in careers of the future through the Summer Academy of Health Science, or SAHS, — a collaborative program between TCC and UNT Health Fort Worth. Now in its third year, SAHS is designed to inspire students to explore careers as providers, researchers, teachers and…
August 25, 2025 • Banner feature, College of Public Health college of public health
Earlier this summer, the College of Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth hosted its inaugural Writing Lab. The three-day event housed within the College of Public Health was available to members of the CPH, UNT Health and Fort Worth community. Twenty-seven participants including UNT Health faculty, research staff, doctoral students and external community partners…
July 31, 2025 • College of Public Health, Our People, Public Health Boston Congress of Public Health Review, college of public health, Malinee Neelamegam, RoiSan Nhpang, Shilpa Patil, Sophia Garza, Stacey Griner, UNT Health Fort Worth,
Three Ph.D. students from the College of Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth have recently co-authored publications alongside their faculty advisors. Second-year doctoral student Sophia Garza published her first first-author paper, titled “Approaches to Address Gender-Based and Interpersonal Violence Among Marginalized and At-Risk Populations in Brazil: A Scoping Review.” Garza began the project in…
July 18, 2025 • College of Public Health college of public health
Meet Max Ma, a Fort Worth native and current senior at Texas A&M University. This summer, he served as a summer intern on behalf of UNT Health Fort Worth as a participant in a research mentoring program supported by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas. The 10-week internship program at UNT Health was not…
July 9, 2025 • College of Public Health college of public health
Teresa Wagner, DrPH, associate professor in the College of Public Health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, collaborated with interprofessional colleagues on a national health literacy statement on behalf of the National Academies of Practice. The National Academies of Practice is a nonprofit interprofessional organization that advocates for improved…
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