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May 11, 2020 • COVID-19, Family Medicine, Public Health, School of Public Health, UNT Texas Center for Performing Arts Health
By Jan Jarvis After playing musical instruments during the school year, it is time for students to return the rental equipment, a task that takes on new meaning during the pandemic. At a time when social distancing is required and hygiene is a top concern, how do middle and high school students properly clean their…
May 4, 2020 • Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker At 17, Stephan Davis, DNP, MHSA, FACHE, left St. Louis for New York City to study jazz performance. It wasn’t long, though, before he was so moved by the people and needs he encountered there that his career path and life ambitions turned to serving others through nursing and ultimately healthcare leadership…
May 1, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker Family grocery shopping is a different adventure when your mom is a public health epidemiologist called “Dr. Microbe” by her friends and colleagues. When her daughter was very young, Dr. Diana Cervantes, Director of the MPH Epidemiology program at the HSC School of Public Health, would play a little game of “let’s…
April 23, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker Earlier this year, HSC alumnus Witold Migala, PhD, MPH, was busy wrapping up his leadership year as President of the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA), typically culminating in the organization’s annual conference and passing of the gavel to a new slate of officers. This year, however, was very different. As alerts about…
April 20, 2020 • Community, Public Health, School of Public Health, Sustainability
By Oreoluwa Obayan Help out the disadvantaged, the environment, and your own sense of purpose by donating discarded clothes and household goods during the HSC Fort Worth Clothing Drive, a student project honoring Earth Day. April 22 through May 6, drop off your items in a no-touch bin on the west side of the HSC…
April 20, 2020 • Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker A high number of Americans – about to 40 percent to 59 percent – live financially close to the edge, with few resources available for emergency backup. Just one rough patch has the ability to throw families off their feet, impacting their ability to make the rent, buy groceries, pay bills, access…
April 17, 2020 • Education, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker Stephan Davis, DNP, MHSA, FACHE, knows how it feels to want to be a part of making change happen. The incoming director of the Master of Health Administration (MHA) degree program at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth was practicing as a registered nurse and just 21…
April 16, 2020 • COVID-19, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker One recent afternoon, HSC Regents Professor Dr. Scott Walters was working from home like most North Texans who are socially distancing right now as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was leading a Zoom meeting when things really heated up in his closed-door office, not because Dr. Walters was sparking new…
April 15, 2020 • COVID-19, Family Medicine, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Jan Jarvis The minute Dana Litt saw her mother on FaceTime she had no doubts about why she was calling. “My mom was crying and I just knew,” Dr. Litt said. “I was hearing some pretty shattering news, and there was literally nothing I could do.” The feeling of helplessness that Dr. Litt endured…
April 14, 2020 • COVID-19, Public Health, School of Public Health, Students
By Alex Branch Dozens of HSC Fort Worth Public Health students will join the fight against COVID-19 at Tarrant County Public Health by helping gather information about people who may have been exposed to the virus. The students will answer phone lines and help support investigators in the field who perform contact tracing and other…
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