Welcome to the Center for Community Health
UPCOMING EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE
5th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities
May 27-28, 2010
UNT Health Science Center
WHAT WE'RE UP TO
Click here to read a recent Dallas Observer article about the Dr. Martha Felini's Prostitute Diversion Initiative program (or access the full text in our News Feed in the left pane).
Community Advisory Board Elects New Leadership for 2010
We would like to express our gratitude to Sue Pickens, CAB Chair, and Dan Reimer, CAB Vice Chair, for their outstanding service and contributions to the Center for Community Health during 2009. Their leadership, enthusiasm and creative collaboration have been invaluable as CCH continues to explore new ways to partner with our communities to conduct meaningful research that translates into better health practices. Thanks, Sue and Dan, for all you have done!
CCH would also like to announce our new CAB Chair, Larry Tubb, and Vice Chair, Jackie Meeks. Larry is the Senior Vice President of System Planning at Cook Children’s Healthcare System, and Jackie is the Director of Public Health Projects at JPS Health Network. Larry and Jackie have both been members of our CAB from the beginning and are fully invested in the Center’s work. We know 2010 will be a banner year under their strong leadership. Here’s to a great year!
Felinis Receive PRISM Award for PDI Program
Martha Felini, PhD, a CCH Research Affiliate and her husband, Sgt. Louis Felini, have received the PRISM Award from Mental Health America of Greater Dallas for their outstanding work on the Prostitution Diversion Initiative program.
Congratulations on your great work!!
CCH Research Affiliates Receive UNTHSC Faculty Awards
We are proud to announce that several UNTHSC faculty who are also CCH Research Affiliates were recently honored with Faculty Awards:
Karan Singh, PhD received the Academic Commendation of Excellence Award, given to faculty who have received the highest possible ranking on post-tenure reviews.
Elena Bastida, PhD received the Benjamin L. Cohen DO Award for Outstanding Research Achievement.
Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD received the Rising Star Award based on her substantial success in obtaining extramural grant support.
Congratulations to these accomplished individuals! We are very proud to count them among our Research Affiliates.
UNTHSC Professor Awarded Fulbright Grant
We are very proud to announce that one of CCH's Research Affiliates, Dr. Sue Lurie, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences for the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has been awarded a five-month Fulbright grant, beginning in September 2009, to teach at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Lurie will also pursue future research opportunities while in Hungary. The Center for Community Health congratulates Dr. Lurie on this very distinguished honor!
Please visit our new page listing publications by our distinguished Research Affiliates HERE.
Click here to read a recent Fort Worth Business Press article on health disparities by Dr. Scott Ransom, President of UNT Health Science Center.
Click the link below to view the presentation from the March Health Industry Council luncheon:
