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June 4, 2019 • community
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Linda Fulmer, B.S.W., M. Ed. Executive Director, Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration In 2014 we met with the community leaders in East and Southeast Fort Worth to ask what they thought could help make their neighborhoods healthier. They pointed out that while many organizations…
May 3, 2019 • community
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog By Luvleen Dharni Whether the first or third child, having a baby brings tremendous responsibility and readjustment in the daily routine. For many, the new life brings joy and happiness, but along with these celebrations, unexpected challenges may arise. For the last 15 years,…
April 1, 2019 • community
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Why is Spring the most important time to talk with your teens? “I came to MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving) in the months after Helen Marie died a sudden, violent death by an alcohol- and marijuana-impaired teen driver. Just as suddenly, we faced…
March 4, 2019 • community
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Last Fall I was asked to chair an ad hoc (temporary) committee to develop a diversity and inclusion plan for our School of Public Health (SPH). This seemed like a fairly straightforward task for a couple of different reasons. First, our accrediting…
January 14, 2019 • community
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Public Health Irony An irony of public health is that the more effective we are the less visible we become—we work to prevent disease, to keep bad things from happening. The constant chatter in social media isn’t focused on what isn’t happening…
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