Upcoming Events

Epidemiology Seminar
by Teams in the MS-Teams Calendar

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Catherine Vaziri PhD(c), MPH: Molecular Ecology of Hard Tick Species in Texas
PHB 956/Teams

Student Wellness Week: Restore: Rest, Reflect, and Renew at SPH!
PHB 3rd Floor

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Anjolaoluwa Olunaike MPH: Biculturalism & Vaping among Mexican-American College Students in Texas
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Qianzi Zhang, MPH: From index hospitalization to readmission: mortality, costs, and thirty-day readmission
Teams

Student Wellness Week: Sand Volleyball Tournament with all Seven Schools!
UTHealth Houston Rec Center/Fields

Walk to End Alzheimer's 2026
TMC3 Helix Park

Dissertation Proposal Defense by May Hashish, MD, MSc: Work-related risk factors for cardiometabolic and chronic kidney diseases
Microsoft Teams meeting

Dissertation Defense by Kai Jiang, MS: Bayesian Methods for Microbiome-Metabolome Data Integration
SPH HOU 956

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chidera Emeto, MA: Perinatal Social Support Among Black Families in Texas
Microsoft Teams

Thesis Presentation by Ian Huh, BS: Association Between Physical Activity and Sleep Among 8th- and 11th-Grade Students
Teams

Student Flu Shots
PHB Room 120.01

Practicum Learning Contracts Information Session
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Bonifacio Vega II, MPA, BSHS: Culturally Tailored Responses to Food Insecurity in Maverick County
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Oladipo Kunle Afolayan, MS: Hybrid Statistical and Multimodal Deep Learning for Suicide Risk
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Iman Egab, MPH: Expanding the Rules of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD)
PHB 956

Dissertation Defense by Lorena Macias-Navarro, MSc: Conversational Agents in Nutrition: Synthesis, Methods, and Evaluation
PHB HOU 956 (9th floor)

Carmel Dyer Lecture Series, "Dysautonomia Across the Lifespan” – Elsa M. Rodarte, MD
PHB 210, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trl, Houston, TX 77054

Thesis Presentation by Mounika Ashannagari, B.Tech: INTEGRATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE GENETICS WITH SINGLE-NUCLEUS TRANSCRIPTOMICS
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Holly Hughes Garza, DVM, MPH: Pediatric traumatic injury research with healthcare administrative data
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, 1836 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701, Room 518 and via Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Khadija Ziauddin: Perceived Barriers to Colonoscopy Screening among Spousal Dementia Caregivers
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Weixin Lu, MS: Ultra-Processed Food Intake, Sociodemographic Differences, and Early Cardiometabolic Risk
Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Defense by Jinze Li: Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Viruses
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054, Room PHB 856; and via Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Michelle Pennington, MPH: Firearm-Related Suicide Among Professional Firefighters
WebEx

Thesis Presentation by Nathanael Emerick, BS: Proteomics Response to Commercial Spaceflight Across Five Missions
UTHealth School of Public Health, Room 312, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054

Dissertation Defense by Weilu Zhao, MBBS, MS: Discovering HIV Symptom Patterns and Their Associations with Health Outcomes Using
TBD

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chengyuan Yang: Statistical Methods for Multivariate Clinical Endpoints and Healthcare Records
PHB 732.01

2026 Texas Food Is Medicine Movement: From Plate to Policy Summit
UTHealth Houston PHB Building

Congenital Syphilis and the Neonate: What NICU and Newborn Teams Need to Know
Virtual - Microsoft Teams

Implementation Science Seminar - Advancing the Science of Sustainability in Implementation Science
Online via Zoom