Month: January 2021

By Sally Crocker In an election year like no other, UNTHSC Master of Health Administration (MHA) student Hina Ajaz stepped up in a major way to help get out the vote and advocate for state and local initiatives supporting public health and health equity. Ajaz plans to work in health policy after graduation, perhaps as…

By Sally Crocker   In a traditionally male dominated field, a team of diverse women from HSC’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program, developing future healthcare leaders, has won this year’s student case competition of the American College of Healthcare Executives North Texas Chapter (ACHENTX). The problem was important and complex. Solutions were needed quickly,…

Zhengqi Tan, a 5-th year Ph.D. student, published his article in BMC Psychology. Zhengqi used a latent variable modeling technique to analyze 18-month longitudinal data to discover that increased social support may help improve depressive symptoms and substance use problems over time among adults in permanent supportive housing. This article can be accessed at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-020-00507-0