High school senior Sharon Zhao organized a September 5, 2026, chronic disease prevention event at Landon Ridge Sugar Land Independent Living. UTMB faculty and SPPH students shared research-based health education, offered screenings and led stretching activities.
Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein was quoted in this GQ article about male infertility. The article titled, “No Sperm Left Behind: Modern Medicine’s Race to Solve Male Infertility,” discusses how our common understanding of male fertility is misguided.
In the From the Dean Student Excellence Series, MPH student John Cooks shares how community knowledge, public health training and a musician’s ear can support resident-led research in Galveston County.
Lorenah Vasquez, Peyton Swanson and Carmen Haynes presented dissertation research on August 27 at the Gulf Coast Bioethics Symposium at Open Gates in Galveston, on farmworker identity, rural enrollment in clinical research, and epigenetic studies of Hurricane Katrina survivors.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has established a new Department of Aerospace and Exploration Medicine within its School of Public and Population Health, expanding the university’s longstanding work in aerospace health and positioning UTMB to help address the health challenges of the next era of human exploration.
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