Year: 2016

  Scientists have long recognized the connection between diseases in animals and diseases in people. Tuberculosis, brucellosis and African sleeping sickness, for example, are common infections passed from livestock to individuals in some third-world countries. So when Katherine Fogelberg, DVM, PhD, with the UNTHSC School of Public Health announced a practice experience opportunity in Uganda…

When Melissa Oden, DHEd, takes over as Texas Public Health Association (TPHA) President in April, she will celebrate a relationship that has lasted more than a dozen years so far and has impacted both her own career and the futures of many UNT Health Science Center students. “I can’t say enough good things about TPHA,…

SPH student Chandler Sparks and his wife, Emily, found a most special way to give back over the holiday season. Chandler is pursuing his Master of Public Health degree through the SPH in tandem with his TCOM medical degree.  Read more about the family's special story here. This holiday season, an abandoned newborn boy has…

Professor Emeritus Terry Gratton, DrPH, remembers his years of teaching for the UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health as one of the most rewarding times of his career. He cares so much about students and furthering work in Environmental and Occupational Health that he and his wife of 42 years have found a way…