School of Public Health
July 11, 2012
Dr. Jose Pagan, Chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy in the School of Public Health, is leading a new $7.3 million Health Care Innovations Award funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The project is a partnership between UNTHSC and Brookdale Senior Living,…
June 22, 2012
Three students from the UNT Health Science Center's School of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, have been selected to participate in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School 2012 Student Quality Leadership Academy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July. The Master of Health Administration (MHA) students - pictured left to right, Derrick Villa, Megan Clark…
May 16, 2012
At the recent American Association of Occupational Health Nurses conference in Nashville, Tennessee, SPH doctoral candidate Joyce Hood, MPH, RN, COHN-S, was presented with the national UL PureSafety Workplace Health and Safety Stewardship Award, recognizing her work in occupational and environmental health nursing and her dedication to "creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace." According to conference leaders…
May 8, 2012
Three School of Public Health (SPH) faculty members have been recognized for outstanding service, teaching and research.Pictured with SPH Dean Richard S. Kurz, PhD, (from left to right) are Elizabeth Trevino Dawson, DrPH, who received the Faculty Award for Service; Scott Walters, PhD, who received the Faculty Award for Research; and Erin Carlson, PhD, who…
May 3, 2012
The Tour de Fort Worth area bike ride, to be held Wednesday, May 9, beginning at 5:30 p.m., has been designated by Mayor Betsy Price as an event that will donate proceeds to "Healthy Moms - Healthy Babies - Healthy Community."The "Healthy Moms - Healthy Babies - Healthy Community" initiative is designed to lower infant…
April 25, 2012
Physician owners tout the lower mortality rates and higher quality ratings in their own cardiac specialty hospitals. Yet a recent study published in the April 2012 issue of the journal Health Affairs found that these same physicians have offsetting higher mortality rates when they admit Medicaid, uninsured, and minority patients to non-cardiac hospitals. The outstanding…
January 17, 2012
Dr. Erin Carlson, assistant professor of Health Management and Policy, has been selected to participate in Leading Edge, a program of Leadership Fort Worth, Texas, for young leaders in their 20s and 30s. The program offers an opportunity to strengthen leadership skills, build connections with local community leaders and move toward non-profit board service. According…
January 4, 2012
The Texas Health Institute (THI), a statewide organization improving the health of Texans through health policy and grassroots health solutions, has contracted with the School of Public Health (SPH) at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC) to assist with the evaluation of a new, Web-based service called The Benefit Bank for Texas (TBB-TX), to connect…
January 4, 2012
Swati Biswas, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics at the UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded a grant from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for a study titled "Preliminary Evidence for a Two-Stage Approach for Adapting BRCAPRO to Primary Clinical Settings." BRCAPRO is a widely-used statistical model for…
December 13, 2011
Under the leadership of Thad Miller, MPH, DrPH, the School of Public Health at UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas, has been named as one of 10 national research sites for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-sponsored Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium. This 10-year, up to $5.3 million contract is focused on…
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