Month: June 2013

With health officials reporting the second case of West Nile virus (WNV) in the state found in Tarrant County in mid-June, the city of Fort Worth is on high alert again this year. Last year, Tarrant County was hit hard by the disease, with 11 deaths and 259 total cases, 105 of which were severe.…

UNTHSC professor and Biostatistics Chair Sharon Homan, PhD, has found a way to give her students the BEST in academics and professional experience. Last fall, she created a Biostatistics and Evaluation Services and Training Center called “BEST” within the SPH, to serve as a data analytics resource for researchers and public health practitioners, agencies and…

Pictured from left to right are:  Bhaavika Patel, Garrett Boland, Andrea Bennett and Karyssa Bowers Four SPH students have been selected to participate in the 4th Annual Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School Student Quality Leadership Academy, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundationin Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 13-14. The four Master of Health Administration…