School of Public Health
May 22, 2014
April 10-11, 2014 | Save the Date | UNT Health Science Center campus Our purpose is to inform the community of the impact of the built environment on lifestyle and health and the potential for creating improvement in Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas. How can individuals and communities become healthier? An important factor in…
May 21, 2014
Dr. Harvey Brenner An international research team led by a UNT Health Science Center public health professor found that a just and socially responsible layoff process is important for the emotional health of workers - a study that occurred during the most severe recession since the Great Depression. The findings could inform how downsizing companies…
May 14, 2014
Two School of Public Health graduate students from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences have received national scholarships in essay competitions related to their field of study. Kikelomo (Kike) Akintunde (MPH ‘15) has won both the 3M Personal Safety Division’s Occupational Health and Safety Scholarship Award, as well as the Dr. Ralph…
May 12, 2014
Dr. Susie Mikler Susie Ramisetty-Mikler, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching-Research Scholarship (2014-15) to spend 10 months at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ramisetty-Mikler will be teaching a graduate health research/data analysis course in the Department of Family…
May 2, 2014
Jennifer Cole, MPH ‘14 A group of researchers led by Dr. Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, assistant professor of Behavioral and Community Health at UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), has discovered that the preference of African American women toward a larger, curvier body type may be a significant barrier to maintaining healthy weight, a key factor in helping…
April 28, 2014
Ugo Uzoeghelu UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC) School of Public Health (SPH) graduate student Ugochukwu Uzoeghelu (SPH '14) has been named as one of this year's Decade Software-National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) scholarship winners. NEHA, an environmental health and protection professional society with more than 4,500 members across the U.S., was founded to help create…
February 11, 2014
Dr. Sumi Suzuki In a recent article published in Preventing Chronic Disease, a peer-reviewed journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Sumihiro Suzuki, PhD, SPH Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, and Kelly Bowers, Biostatistics PhD student, found that the people most likely to use restaurant menu labeling were those who already are exercising,…
February 10, 2014
Dr. Alisa Rich, lead UNTHSC participant to the WHO Chemical Risk Assessment Network UNT Health Science Center has been accepted into the World Health Organization (WHO) Chemical Risk Assessment Network, a global collaboration focused on identifying and assessing the emerging health risks from chemicals in our environment. Chemicals play a vital role in our daily…
January 28, 2014
Eight North Texas parents who have lost a child to infant mortality will bring awareness to this important community health concern at a PhotoVoice exhibit opening February 10 at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center (FWCAC). The exhibit – “Eight Warrior Mamas: Survivors of Infant Mortality—Empty Arms, Broken Hearts and Grieving Wombs” - runs through…
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