College of Public Health News

By Sally Crocker According to the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 29.5 million people aged 12 or older experienced alcohol use disorder in the previous year. In 2019, 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with substance use disorders, an NSDUH survey found. More than 106,000 persons in the U.S. […]

Dr. Stacey Griner, College of Public Health assistant professor in the department of population and community health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth – in partnership with HSC’s Center for Health Policy – is working on a new HIV care and prevention grant from the U.S. Health Resources and […]

    Dr. Matthew Rossheim from the HSC College of Public Health was recently interviewed by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the concerning issue of vaping among school-age children. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article278860064.html

Dr. Melissa Lewis has been invited to join the new College Working Group of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Lewis, an associate dean for research and professor in the College of Public Health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, adds her expertise to NIAAA’s focus on […]

By Sally Crocker Dr. Scott Walters, Regents Professor at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s College of Public Health, recently presented an online training for substance use providers through the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology and Transfer Center. “The Perfect and the Good: Engaging People around Harm Reduction and Non-Abstinence Based […]