Cervantes Daughter1

Epidemiologist’s advice for helping kids understand their role in COVID-19 prevention

By Sally Crocker Family grocery shopping is a different adventure when your mom is a public health epidemiologist called “Dr. Microbe” by her friends and colleagues. When her daughter was very young, Dr. Diana Cervantes, Director of the MPH Epidemiology program at the HSC School of Public Health, would play a little game of “let’s…
Migala Covid Story2

What impacts one affects us all

By Sally Crocker   Earlier this year, HSC alumnus Witold Migala, PhD, MPH, was busy wrapping up his leadership year as President of the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA), typically culminating in the organization’s annual conference and passing of the gavel to a new slate of officers. This year, however, was very different. As alerts…
Children Families Covid

COVID-19 significantly challenges children and families

By Sally Crocker   A high number of Americans – about to 40 to 59 percent – live financially close to the edge, with few resources available for emergency backup. Just one rough patch has the ability to throw families off their feet, impacting their ability to make the rent, buy groceries, pay bills, access…
Walters And New Coworkers

When family members become coworkers in a brave new work environment

By Sally Crocker One recent afternoon, HSC Regents Professor Dr. Scott Walters was working from home like most North Texans who are socially distancing right now as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was leading a Zoom meeting when things really heated up in his closed-door office, not because Dr. Walters was sparking new…
Dr Joyce Hood

Empathy, communications most important for businesses now

By Sally Crocker Through innovative thinking in the wake of COVID-19, there’s now a Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant supplier on a new course, delivering fresh-baked bread products directly to consumers’ doorsteps. The hotel industry has been among one of the hardest hit business sectors during the pandemic, yet Marriott International has been widely praised for sharing…