College of Public Health
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 College 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 College 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 College 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…
December 13, 2011
Dean Richard S. Kurz, PhD, UNT Health Science Center College of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, has secured a one-year contract with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), Division for Regional and Local Health Services, to assess, support and increase the readiness of Texas' local health departments for accreditation based on standards of…
October 18, 2011
Richard S. Kurz, PhD, Dean of the College of Public Health, has been selected to serve as a member of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Public Health Funding and Policy Committee established by Senate Bill 969 in the 82nd State Legislative Session. Working with State Commissioner David L. Lakey, MD, the committee…
October 15, 2011
Kristine Lykens, PhD, MPA, AB, associate professor of Health Management and Policy at UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) College of Public Health (second from left), and UNTHSC Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student and Public Health Student Association (PHSA) president Susan N. Jackson, MPH, CHES (right), recently attended the ONE Summit in Washington, DC, as…
October 13, 2011
Scott T. Walters, PhD, professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the UNT Health Science Center's College of Public Health, Fort Worth, Texas, has published new findings regarding the sources that college students use to gather health information, and in particular, the role that parents play in the process. The findings are published in the…
September 29, 2011
Christine A. Moranetz, PhD, FAWHP, of the UNT Health Science Center's (UNTHSC) College of Public Health (SPH), has been invited to serve as a speaker and panel moderator at the October 9-11, 2011, UT Southwestern Medical Center's "Global Health 3.0: The Role of Academic Institutions" symposium, targeted to faculty, students, administrators and health care professionals…
September 19, 2011
Mark J. DeHaven, PhD, and Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, PhD, have joined the College of Public Health faculty, in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to his role as professor of Behavioral and Community Health, Dr. DeHaven is Executive Director of the Texas Prevention…
August 31, 2011
Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at the UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC), Fort Worth, Texas, was recently awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) for a project titled "Comprehensive Breast Cancer Prevention for High-Risk Women in Dallas County" that includes outreach…
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