School of Public Health
August 23, 2011
As principal investigator (PI) on the grant-funded "Healthy Moms - Healthy Babies - Healthy Community" (HMHBHC) initiative in Fort Worth, Texas, Richard S. Kurz, PhD, dean of the UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) School of Public Health, will be participating on a national team addressing the issues of racial and ethnic inequities in infant mortality…
August 11, 2011
Scott T. Walters, PhD, professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) School of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, is co-author on a national study, recently published in Addictive Behaviors 36, 2011, 1008-1014, concluding that incoming college freshmen increase risky drinking immediately after the start of school, while progressively using…
August 2, 2011
Scott T. Walters, PhD, has joined the School of Public Health at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC) as professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Walters, who holds his PhD in clinical psychology, is the author/co-author of four books, 50 journal articles, and more than 100 conference papers, posters and presentations on social and…
July 13, 2011
David A. Sterling, PhD, CIH, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and acting chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the UNT Health Science Center's School of Public Health, has been appointed to two committees recently, the Dallas Gas Drilling Task Force and the Barnett Shale Monitoring Focus Group…
June 30, 2011
Hsueh-Fen Chen, PhD, assistant professor, Health Management and Policy, for the School of Public Health at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas, is the lead author of a new research article, titled "Telehealth and Hospitalizations for Medicare Home Healthcare Patients," published in the June 2011 issue of The American Journal of Managed…
June 30, 2011
Hsueh-Fen Chen, PhD, assistant professor, Health Management and Policy, for the School of Public Health at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas, is the lead author of a new research article, titled "Telehealth and Hospitalizations for Medicare Home Healthcare Patients," published in the June 2011 issue of The American Journal of Managed…
June 30, 2011
José A. Pagán, PhD, chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at the UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) School of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, is lead author on an article, "An Integrated, Clinician-focused Telehealth Monitoring System to Reduce Hospitalization Rates for Home Health Care patients with Diabetes," to be published in the…
June 22, 2011
José A. Pagán, PhD, chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at the UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) School of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, is co-author of an article, "Cross-Border Utilization of Health Care: Evidence from a Population-Based Study in South Texas," published in the June 2011 issue of Health Services Research…
June 7, 2011
The School of Public Health at UNT Health Science Center Fort Worth (UNTHSC) has signed an agreement with the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU), allowing students from the Health Science Center's School of Public Health and TCU MBA students from the Neeley School of Business to take classes on the partnering…
June 7, 2011
The School of Public Health (SPH) at the UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, (UNTHSC), has named Matt Nolan Adrignola, EdD, MBA, as Associate Dean for Administration and Student Services, a new position for the school. In this new role, he will direct the school's admissions and student services processes from recruitment to enrollment, graduation…
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