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By Sally Crocker Dr. Kari Northeim, School of Public Health assistant professor of population and community health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, has been awarded the SAMHSA Rural EMS Training and Education grant in conjunction with HSC community partners, Parker County Hospital District and BEST EMS. BEST EMS is a…

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…

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.…

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…