School of Public Health
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September 27, 2017 • Uncategorized
Incoming School of Public Health graduate students participated in their first Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPE) event of the year to discuss the summer’s common reading exercise for Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives, the bestselling book that tells the tale of how New York City launched…
September 21, 2017 • Uncategorized
Perhaps the main reason that UNT Health Science Center student Shivani Goswami was selected as this year’s Barbara Starfield Medical Scholar by the American Public Health Association (APHA) is because of her desire to build a better healthcare system. As a future healthcare leader selected for this prestigious national honor, she will be involved in…
September 14, 2017 • Uncategorized
In a new American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) editorial, a UNT Health Science Center professor challenges a conventional research formula for measuring the health of populations, calling the method age discriminatory. M. Harvey Brenner, PhD, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Systems at the UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health, said he…
September 7, 2017 • Uncategorized
A team of UNTHSC public health graduates is working toward improved patient outcomes in treatment and prevention of cancer, diabetes, infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C, and maternal/child health. Rohit Ojha, DrPH (SPH ’10), was recruited last year to establish the new JPS Health Network’s Center for Outcomes Research (COR) and serve as Director.…
September 5, 2017 • Uncategorized
The UNTHSC School of Public Health was in its infancy when Lilly Ramphal-Naley, MD, MPH, joined as adjunct faculty in 2000. The School had been officially founded just one year before, and plans were underway toward accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health, which would come in 2002. As the SPH has continued…
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