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Oluwatosin Oyadiran, BPharm, MD, MPH, a recent UTMB SPPH graduate, was accepted into the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation as a John R. Lewis National Racial Equity Initiative Social Justice Fellow.

A Dartmouth-led research group, including investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, and Harvard Medical School, has received a five-year, $7 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

For Pride Month, SPPH would like to highlight some of the individuals at UTMB who are working to improve the health of LGBTQ+ individuals and to advance LGBTQ+ health equity.

Monique R. Pappadis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, has been awarded a new grant from the National Institute on Aging for her 5-year project, "Chronic Care Management of Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury."

Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly: An Update Presented by Kyriakos S. Markides, PhD, Professor, Annie and John Gnitzinger Professor of Aging; Editor, Journal of Aging and Health

The Texas Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) will be accepting applications for pilot funding for the academic year (07/01/22 to 06/30/23) until January 15, 2022.

Dr. Peter Melby, who has been with UTMB since 2010, is the Director of both the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for Tropical Diseases.

Dr. Pennel unanimously selected as the recipient of the 2022 Graduate Student Organization Distinguished Teaching Award. Congratulations!

Leaders within the new UTMB School of Public and Population Health will join host TJ Aulds on the next episode of Health Care Unmasked at noon on May 18.