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Dr. Ashenafi Cherkos awarded prestigious AIM-AHEAD Fellowship in Leadership

By Sally Crocker Dr. Ashenafi Cherkos, assistant professor at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, has been awarded the prestigious AIM-AHEAD Fellowship in Leadership for the Fall 2023 Cohort. Cherkos serves in the School of Public Health’s department of population and community health. The National Institutes of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to…
Addiction And Alcohol Interest Group

HSC creates Addiction Interest Group to tackle complex health issues

By Sally Crocker According to the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 29.5 million people aged 12 or older experienced alcohol use disorder in the previous year. In 2019, 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with substance use disorders, an NSDUH survey found. More than 106,000 persons in the U.S.…
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Dr. Stacey Griner partners with HSC Center for Health Policy on new HIV care and prevention grant

Dr. Stacey Griner, School of Public Health assistant professor in the department of population and community health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth - in partnership with HSC's Center for Health Policy - is working on a new HIV care and prevention grant from the U.S. Health Resources and…

Vaping crackdown: Fort Worth students to see harsher discipline for having e-cigarettes

    Dr. Matthew Rossheim from the HSC School of Public Health was recently interviewed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the concerning issue of vaping among school-age children. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article278860064.html
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Dr. Melissa Lewis invited to join NIAAA College Working Group

Dr. Melissa Lewis has been invited to join the new College Working Group of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Lewis, an associate dean for research and professor in the School of Public Health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, adds her expertise to NIAAA’s focus on…