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Category: School of Public Health
March 16, 2023 • Multi School, School of Public Health, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Giving Kids a Smile, HPV vaccine, Human papillomavirus infection, School of Public Health, Texas college of osteopathic medicine, TWU’s dental hygiene program,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is partnering with the Texas Woman’s University dental hygiene program to bring a new Healthy Smiles Initiative to the fourth annual Giving Kids a Smile event. TWU’s dental hygiene program has provided free oral care to children in North Texas for several years through…
March 10, 2023 • School of Public Health Dr. Andrew Yockey, Dr. Rachel Hoopsick, fen, fentanyl, harm reduction, heroin, methamphetamine-related deaths, One Pill Kills, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
As the nation finds itself in the grips of an ongoing deadly fentanyl crisis, a recent study involving a researcher at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has revealed an equally staggering drug-related threat to public health. Dr. Andrew Yockey, an assistant professor of biostatistics and epidemiology in HSC’s School…
March 10, 2023 • School of Public Health, TCOM Diversity in Medicine Conference, Health disparities, mental health stigmas, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, School of Public Health, Texas college of osteopathic medicine, Viet-American Health Pilot study, Vietnamese American, Vietnamese community health,
A dual-degree student at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is taking an important step toward addressing health disparities in one local community. Maria Nguyen, who is a student at HSC’s School of Public Health and Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, will be presenting a poster during the Diversity in…
February 6, 2023 • School of Public Health Black health disparities, Black History Month, Elevating Power and Black Excellence, misty wilder, Quinton “Q” Phillips, Shafik Dharamsi,
In the increasingly complex mosaic of public health and wellness, social determinants play a major role in health disparities. Social determinants of health are the broad range of nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes and health inequities. Some of these include the conditions in which people live, learn, work and play. Studies suggest the lower…
February 1, 2023 • School of Public Health area deprivation index, Black women's health, Brest cancer, Health disparities, Justin Luningham, Ritu Aneja, Shafik Dharamsi,
The cancer divide between Black women and white women in the United States is as entrenched as it is startling. In the 1980s, breast cancer survival rates for the two were nearly identical. But since 1991, as improvements in screening and treatment came into use, the gap has widened, with no signs of abating. Black women are…
January 6, 2023 • School of Public Health adolescent, drugged driving,
In the past year, an estimated 2% of adolescents ages 16-17 drove under the influence of alcohol, 5.65% drove under the influence of marijuana and .48% drove under the influence of drugs other than marijuana. Those are just some of the eye-opening results of a new article on drugged driving by Dr. Andrew Yockey, an…
December 19, 2022 • School of Public Health epidemiology, Human Sexuality and Reproductive Health, Introduction to Health Disparities, Introduction to MCH, MCH Epidemiology, poster presentation,
The School of Public Health hosted its second annual Maternal and Child Health 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. These presentations represented a synthesis…
December 15, 2022 • School of Public Health Healthy People 2030, public health, Public Health in the 21st Century, public health panel,
The power of public health was evident at a recent HSC-hosted event to welcome the new dean of the School 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 featured a panel…
December 13, 2022 • School of Public Health alcohol misuse prevention, crowd-sourcing, NIH, NIH competition,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Project INTEGRATE, was recently named as one of 20 finalists in the DataWorks! Challenge for the team’s work in alcohol misuse prevention. This challenge is produced by HeroX, a crowdsourcing innovation platform with a global partner network. The goal of competitors in the DataWorks! Challenge is to…
December 7, 2022 • School of Public Health Dr. Scott Walters, HEAL Initiative, HEALing Communities Study, One Pill Kills, opioid, opioid crisis,
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 three years, Dr.…
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