Participants in UTMB's Principles of Aviation and Space Medicine course heard from medical leaders at Blue Origin, Starlab, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Axiom Space and Vast — and watched a graduate of UTMB's Residency in Aerospace Medicine launch to the International Space Station.
Dr. Cara Pennel led UTMB SPPH through CEPH accreditation, redesigned the MPH core, and was inducted into the UT System Shine Academy in 2025. The associate dean reflects on teaching, community practice partnerships in Galveston, and the future of public health education.
UTMB Aerospace Medicine is developing an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship, a training program that connects the physiology of high-pressure undersea environments with the low-pressure demands of altitude and spaceflight. The program begins in 2027, and faculty recruitment is open.
Three School of Public and Population Health faculty are among this year's UTMB Faculty Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients. Dr. Kyriakos Markides won Lifetime Achievement in Research, Dr. Soham Al Snih won Excellence in Mentoring, and Dr. Neil Mehta won Excellence in Research.
MPH in Epidemiology graduate Monserrat Hinojosa turned a three-million-record study of latent TB and chronic kidney disease, a dengue surveillance protocol in Lima, and a program evaluation across five schools in Cambodia into a practice of reading data for the people it leaves out.
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