School of Public Health
May 5, 2020
By Sally Crocker This year, two HSC School of Public Health alumni, one outstanding Tarrant County community member and eight graduate students are being inducted into Delta Omega National Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Chapter, recognizing and encouraging public health education, practice, research and related professional achievements. Alumni Honorees Dr. Brittany Marshall Dr. Marshall is a…
May 1, 2020
By Sally Crocker At 17, Stephan Davis, DNP, MHSA, FACHE, left St. Louis for New York City to study jazz performance. It wasn’t long, though, before he was so moved by the people and needs he encountered there that his career path and life ambitions turned to serving others through nursing and ultimately healthcare leadership…
April 30, 2020
By Sally Crocker Family grocery shopping is a different adventure when your mom is a public health epidemiologist called “Dr. Microbe” by her friends and colleagues. When her daughter was very young, Dr. Diana Cervantes, Director of the MPH Epidemiology program at the HSC School of Public Health, would play a little game of “let’s…
April 23, 2020
By Sally Crocker Earlier this year, HSC alumnus Witold Migala, PhD, MPH, was busy wrapping up his leadership year as President of the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA), typically culminating in the organization’s annual conference and passing of the gavel to a new slate of officers. This year, however, was very different. As alerts…
April 17, 2020
By Sally Crocker A high number of Americans – about to 40 to 59 percent – live financially close to the edge, with few resources available for emergency backup. Just one rough patch has the ability to throw families off their feet, impacting their ability to make the rent, buy groceries, pay bills, access…
April 16, 2020
By Sally Crocker One recent afternoon, HSC Regents Professor Dr. Scott Walters was working from home like most North Texans who are socially distancing right now as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was leading a Zoom meeting when things really heated up in his closed-door office, not because Dr. Walters was sparking new…
April 7, 2020
By Sally Crocker Through innovative thinking in the wake of COVID-19, there’s now a Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant supplier on a new course, delivering fresh-baked bread products directly to consumers’ doorsteps. The hotel industry has been among one of the hardest hit business sectors during the pandemic, yet Marriott International has been widely praised for sharing…
April 3, 2020
By Sally Crocker The notion of COVID-19 social distancing seems so strange to most of us, yet quarantines for the good of public health have been around since the Middle Ages and perhaps even earlier. The practice of separating the sick to keep other populations well was, in fact, a very early public health measure…
April 1, 2020
By Sally Crocker Finding the truth has never been more important than in the current times, when people are searching news reports, social media and other resources for COVID-19 advice and information that might help in protecting their health and saving lives, says HSC researcher Erika Thompson, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and…
March 30, 2020
Professor and family mourn the COVID-19 loss of dear relative known to many through movies, stage and TV By Sally Crocker Dr. Dana Litt remembers a lot of special things about veteran stage and film actor Mark Blum, 69, a respected fixture on the New York acting scene for decades who recently died from complications…
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