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November 3, 2017 • Uncategorized
By Sally Crocker UNT Health Science Center public health students celebrated Halloween 2017 in healthy style. As part of a community-wide “Public Health in Action Series,” the School of Public Health was treated to a nutritious, tasty cooking demonstration courtesy of the Blue Zones Project Fort Worth. Vahista Ussery, known locally as “Chef V,” boiled the…
October 24, 2017 • Uncategorized
UNTHSC students, faculty and staff are invited to the 2nd Annual Zoonotic Disease Fair from noon to 3 p.m. on November 21, to learn about some of the common diseases found in Texas that can be passed from animals to humans. “It pays to be aware,” said public health student Emily Blankenship, who is helping…
October 12, 2017 • Uncategorized
UNT Health Science Center researchers and colleagues have released findings from a new study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, showing a reduction in opioid-related deaths following legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado. Illegal and legally prescribed opioids now account for nearly 30,000 deaths a year in the United States, and the CDC says…
October 4, 2017 • Uncategorized
Helena Sung, who received her MPH in Health Management and Policy from the UNTHSC School of Public Health in 2014, has been awarded the Benjamin B. Ferencz Fellowship in Human Rights and Law from the World Without Genocide organization at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ferencz fellowships are named for one…
October 2, 2017 • Uncategorized
Collaboration between TCOM, the UNTHSC School of Public Health, the CDC and Tarrant County Public Health resulted in a research publication and presentation at a national meeting for student Patrick Crowley, TCOM class of 2018. Crowley has been published in the Texas Journal of Public Health for his work with Dr. Thad Miller, Associate Professor…
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