January 5, 2022
By Sally Crocker Melissa A. Lewis, PhD, has been named as the first Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement at the HSC School of Public Health (SPH). She began this new position January 1, 2022. In this new role, she will provide strategic guidance in identifying and communicating opportunities for public health research funding;…
January 3, 2022
By Sally Crocker The rates of driving under the influence are of high concern for communities across the U.S. Injuries, hospitalizations and road-related fatalities are some of the sobering consequences of drunk or drugged driving. For drivers over age 50, the risks can be compounded, given the challenges they may already face with performance on…
January 2, 2022
By Sally Crocker Lives are touched in meaningful ways when hearts and hands come together to serve the community by giving back to others. School of Public Health volunteers worked with the local Habitat for Humanity in Fall 2021 to help provide a new place to call home and a brighter future for an area…
December 15, 2021
By Sally Crocker The School of Public Health (SPH) recently hosted its first annual Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and Health Disparities Poster Symposium, featuring graduate student presentations from four courses in the public health core curriculum: Introduction to MCH, Introduction to Health Disparities, Human Sexuality and Reproductive Health, and MCH Epidemiology. These presentations represented…
December 9, 2021
By Sally Crocker The 2021 holiday travel season is well underway. More than 2.3 million people were screened at airports around the country on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the busiest air travel day since the start of the pandemic. Millions more are planning to fly by the end of December – with airlines continuing to…
November 12, 2021
A new Project INTEGRATE tutorial article on meta-analytic mediation analysis using raw data from multiple studies is now online in Prevention Science and illustrates a powerful and flexible approach for testing mechanisms of intervention effect. This article can be accessed at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11121-021-01318-4
November 8, 2021
By Sally Crocker Approximately 11% of all alcohol consumed across the country is within the 12-20 age group, with 90% falling into the category of heavy-episodic drinking. Excessive drinking is responsible for thousands of deaths among underage youth each year. Two HSC School of Public Health researchers - Dana M. Litt, PhD, and Melissa A.…
November 4, 2021
By Sally Crocker The first Hope Award honoring a volunteer whose extraordinary efforts make a significant difference in advancing the mission of the Center for Transforming Lives (CTL) has been presented to Dr. Erika Thompson at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics…
November 1, 2021
By Sally Crocker Robyn B. Remotigue, MPPA, CRA, Executive Director of the Office of Research Services at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) School of Public Health has been elected as incoming Secretary for the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), to serve a two-year term beginning January…
November 1, 2021
By Sally Crocker Nolan Kline, PhD, is the kind of person who can’t sit by when action is needed. A defining moment early in his college experience led Dr. Kline to a career in public health education, research and service, and as a new faculty member in the HSC School of Public Health, he now…
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