College of Public Health
November 16, 2017
By Sally Crocker Thirty-eight years ago, Dr. Lilly Ramphal-Naley received a special gift on her medical school graduation day, and now she has passed it on to a UNTHSC public health graduate who will soon be caring for patients himself. The gift- a doctor’s bag – is probably over 100 years old. It was presented to…
November 16, 2017
College of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Two years ago, County Commissioner Roy Brooks underwent surgery to remove prostate cancer. Two years prior to that, his brother died of prostate cancer. When interviewed prior to his surgery, Commissioner Brooks said: “Men of color are at much higher risk of…
November 15, 2017
By Sally Crocker When Dr. Thad Miller introduced a different kind of course project to his Health Insurance and Managed Care class, he knew it would be interesting, but he had no idea that it would result in one of the university’s largest and most collaborative Grand Rounds in many years. How did a unique teaching…
November 7, 2017
By Sally Crocker Within two months of graduating from the UNTHSC College of Public Health (MHA ’16), Harleen Singh took on a highly selective administrative residency with Baylor Scott & White Health (BS&W), one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the United States. This two-year postgraduate program – which helps prepare future health care…
November 3, 2017
By Sally Crocker UNT Health Science Center public health students celebrated Halloween 2017 in healthy style. As part of a community-wide “Public Health in Action Series,” the College of Public Health was treated to a nutritious, tasty cooking demonstration courtesy of the Blue Zones Project Fort Worth. Vahista Ussery, known locally as “Chef V,” boiled the…
October 24, 2017
UNTHSC students, faculty and staff are invited to the 2nd Annual Zoonotic Disease Fair from noon to 3 p.m. on November 21, to learn about some of the common diseases found in Texas that can be passed from animals to humans. “It pays to be aware,” said public health student Emily Blankenship, who is helping…
October 24, 2017
College of Public Health & Texas Center for Health Disparities Community Blog Introduction My daughter, an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), recently relayed a story about a call to which she responded. It involved an elderly couple in which the husband nearly killed his wife. How? Miscommunication, or a lack of health literacy. Healthcare miscommunication…
October 12, 2017
UNT Health Science Center researchers and colleagues have released findings from a new study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, showing a reduction in opioid-related deaths following legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado. Illegal and legally prescribed opioids now account for nearly 30,000 deaths a year in the United States, and the CDC says…
October 4, 2017
Helena Sung, who received her MPH in Health Management and Policy from the UNTHSC College of Public Health in 2014, has been awarded the Benjamin B. Ferencz Fellowship in Human Rights and Law from the World Without Genocide organization at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ferencz fellowships are named for one…
October 2, 2017
Collaboration between TCOM, the UNTHSC College of Public Health, the CDC and Tarrant County Public Health resulted in a research publication and presentation at a national meeting for student Patrick Crowley, TCOM class of 2018. Crowley has been published in the Texas Journal of Public Health for his work with Dr. Thad Miller, Associate Professor…
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