Public health student, family call for change in mental health care: ‘Medicine not Bullets’

  Dominique Pean remembers the night his older brother Alan was shot in a hospital emergency room. With a history of depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, Alan, a 26-year-old college student, had become increasingly paranoid and delusional leading up to the night he sped to the ER seeking help. Nearly totaling his car on the…

SPH graduate named 2016-2017 ASPPH Fellow

  Jennifer Cole, MPH, UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health graduate, has been named by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) as one of 16 new fellows to engage in an intensive one-year assignment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Cole’s fellowship placement will be with…

SPH student selected for new Siemens ‘next generation researchers’ program

Growing up in a family where she would become the first to graduate high school, Sara Ann Aldridge says she has always been interested in “finding out how people have come to be where they are in life.” A UNTHSC School of Public Health MPH student (Behavioral and Community Health and Global Health) graduating this…

SPH MHA students receive UTMB fellowships

Matthew Johnson (SPH MHA ‘16) has been named as a 2016-17 Administrative Fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). He previously served as an intern for UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and for JPS Health Network in Tarrant County. Johnson said he was drawn to the business side of health care,…

New study finds patient privacy risks in sharing research data

Health care researchers publishing new studies use methods to remove identifiable patient information when sharing their data, which is often required by grant funding organizations and journals publishing the research. Yet, even with those precautionary measures, a UNT Health Science Center public health professor has found that online attackers could still identify individual patient health…