School of Public Health
Year: 2021
December 15, 2021 • Uncategorized
By Sally Crocker The School of Public Health (SPH) recently hosted its first annual Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Health Disparities Poster Symposium, featuring graduate student presentations from four courses in the public health core curriculum: Introduction to MCH, Introduction to Health Disparities, Human Sexuality and Reproductive Health, and MCH Epidemiology. These presentations represented…
December 9, 2021 • Uncategorized
By Sally Crocker The 2021 holiday travel season is well underway. More than 2.3 million people were screened at airports around the country on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the busiest air travel day since the start of the pandemic. Millions more are planning to fly by the end of December – with airlines continuing to…
November 12, 2021 • integrate
A new Project INTEGRATE tutorial article on meta-analytic mediation analysis using raw data from multiple studies is now online in Prevention Science and illustrates a powerful and flexible approach for testing mechanisms of intervention effect. This article can be accessed at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11121-021-01318-4
November 8, 2021 • Front Page
By Sally Crocker Approximately 11% of all alcohol consumed across the country is within the 12-20 age group, with 90% falling into the category of heavy-episodic drinking. Excessive drinking is responsible for thousands of deaths among underage youth each year. Two HSC School of Public Health researchers - Dana M. Litt, PhD, and Melissa A.…
November 4, 2021 • Front Page, Uncategorized
By Sally Crocker The first Hope Award honoring a volunteer whose extraordinary efforts make a significant difference in advancing the mission of the Center for Transforming Lives (CTL) has been presented to Dr. Erika Thompson at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics…
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