School of Public Health
June 4, 2019
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Linda Fulmer, B.S.W., M. Ed. Executive Director, Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration In 2014 we met with the community leaders in East and Southeast Fort Worth to ask what they thought could help make their neighborhoods healthier. They pointed out that while many organizations…
May 31, 2019
By Sally Crocker Under the mentorship of SPH professors Eun-Young Mun, PhD, and Erica Stockbridge, PhD, UNTHSC School of Public Health student Esther Annan recently tackled some of the key gaps and misperceptions related to managing U.S. tuberculosis risk in one of the highest-identified priority populations, those with Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI). LTBI is a…
May 30, 2019
By Sally Crocker Currently working as Physician Assistant for Parkland Health and Hospital System – Correctional Health, Dallas. In this position, Chenier provides medical services to incarcerated youth, offering education and encouragement “to an often forgotten, dismissed population,” she says. “To have the greatest impact on these youth, I must recognize the social determinants of…
May 20, 2019
By Sally Crocker Thad Miller, DrPH, MPH, School of Public Health Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Systems and this year’s UNTHSC Faculty Achievement Award winner, has been inspired by many influences in his life: family, his desire to serve others through faith and community, the opportunity to create change in the world through research…
May 16, 2019
By Sally Crocker Meet Dr. Moonan, a UNT Health Science Center 2005 DrPH (Epidemiology) and 2002 MPH-Epidemiology graduate. Job Title: Associate Chief of Science, Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta. Dr. Moonan is currently responsible for maintaining scientific integrity for all tuberculosis-related activities with the Division of…
May 16, 2019
By Sally Crocker Linda L. Cheng, DDS, MPH, CPH, FAGD, ABGD, is a Clinical Associate Professor and a Group Leader in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. She has been a faculty member at the dental college since 2001 and was recently promoted to Clinical Associate Professor, effective September 2019.…
May 3, 2019
School of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog By Luvleen Dharni Whether the first or third child, having a baby brings tremendous responsibility and readjustment in the daily routine. For many, the new life brings joy and happiness, but along with these celebrations, unexpected challenges may arise. For the last 15 years,…
May 2, 2019
By Sally Crocker The best way to learn about public health is to live it. As a UNT Health Science Center student working on her master’s and doctoral degrees, Diana Treviño Cervantes, DrPH, MPH, was already actively pursuing a career where she could make a difference in the lives of others. Dr. Cervantes was employed as…
April 26, 2019
By Sally Crocker Every day, more than 130 Americans die and more than 1,000 people are treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments for misuse of opioids like heroin, fentanyl, Oxycontin and other prescription pain relievers. “Arguably, the opioid epidemic is our country’s foremost public health challenge,” said Dr. Dennis Thombs, Dean of the UNTHSC School of…
April 17, 2019
By Sally Crocker Dr. Witold Migala is ready to hit the road again. The epidemiologist who has traveled the world helping people from Haiti and Madagascar to Nigeria and beyond has lived, worked in or experienced more than 75 countries during his lifetime. He was in the first UNT Health Science Center cohort to graduate…
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