School of Public Health
November 2, 2010
Dr. Richard Kurz, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, has been appointed by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) to serve on the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE). Board members guide the NBPHE in its mission to increase recognition…
October 5, 2010
University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) School of Public Health professors Fernando Wilson, PhD, and Jim Stimpson, PhD, have recently released a report in the American Journal of Public Health showing that texting while driving resulted in an estimated 16,000 fatalities in the U.S. from 2001 to 2007. The report indicates that a…
September 28, 2010
The UNTHSC School of Public Health (SPH) is part of a consortium with two other schools - Texas A&M Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health and University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston - on two recent training and learning grants. The Texas Public Health Training Center (TPHTC), a workforce development…
September 14, 2010
The School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC), now offers a new "generalist" Master of Public Health (MPH) - Professional Option program that can be completed entirely through evening courses. Other one, two and three-year degree plans are available through both day and evening scheduling. This 42…
September 7, 2010
SPH remembers Leon Harold Brachman - http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=leon-harold-brachman&pid=145162089 Original Steering Committee member founding the School of Public Health, for whom the annual student Brachman Award is named.
September 7, 2010
Tabatha N. Offutt-Powell, MPH, epidemiology doctoral candidate at the University of North Texas Health Science Center's School of Public Health, has been recognized on the Department of Homeland Security's FEMA website under "Lessons Learned-Information Sharing." She was noted for conducting a first-year evaluation of the Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice's School Health Surveillance…
August 17, 2010
Sue Lurie, PhD, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC), recently published an article in the American Public Health Association's Community Health Planning & Policy Development newsletter on health planning by non-governmental organizations in Hungary and the U.S. …
August 1, 2010
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC) has appointed Dennis L. Thombs, PhD, FAAHB, as the new chair for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health. Dr. Thombs joins UNTHSC from the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, J.…
July 20, 2010
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded an additional cancer prevention grant, totaling nearly $300,000, to the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC), under the direction of principal investigator Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Community Health at UNTHSC.…
June 29, 2010
The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) has approved a $62,000 grant to the University of North Texas Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) School of Public Health to assess radiological preparedness in the state of Texas. Dr. David Sterling, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, is serving as Principal…
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