Nov 12 2026 Nov 12, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Oladipo Kunle Afolayan, MS: Hybrid Statistical and Multimodal Deep Learning for Suicide Risk 11:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM Teams
Nov 13 2026 Nov 13, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Iman Egab, MPH: Expanding the Rules of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) 11:00:00 AM - 1:00:00 PM PHB 956
Nov 16 2026 Nov 16, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Lorena Macias-Navarro, MSc: Conversational Agents in Nutrition: Synthesis, Methods, and Evaluation 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM PHB HOU 956 (9th floor)
Nov 16 2026 Nov 16, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Yuanliang yang, MS: Innovative Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs for Addressing Potential Patient 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM TBD
Nov 16 2026 Nov 16, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Yuanliang yang, MS: Innovative Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs for Addressing Potential Patient 10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM TBD
Nov 16 2026 Nov 16, 2026 Carmel Dyer Lecture Series, "Dysautonomia Across the Lifespan” – Elsa M. Rodarte, MD 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM PHB 210, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trl, Houston, TX 77054
Nov 18 2026 Nov 18, 2026 Thesis Presentation by Mounika Ashannagari, B.Tech: INTEGRATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE GENETICS WITH SINGLE-NUCLEUS TRANSCRIPTOMICS 11:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 18 2026 Nov 18, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Holly Hughes Garza, DVM, MPH: Pediatric traumatic injury research with healthcare administrative data 12:00:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, 1836 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701, Room 518 and via Teams
Nov 18 2026 Nov 18, 2026 Epidemiology Seminar 12:00:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM by Teams in the MS-Teams Calendar
Nov 18 2026 Nov 18, 2026 Center for Health Care Data Seminar Series 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM Microsoft Teams Meeting (virtual)
Nov 18 2026 Nov 18, 2026 Thesis Presentation by Hana Lee, BS: Targeted Viral Screening and Exploratory Metatranscriptomic Profiling of Amblyomma Ticks 3:00:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 19 2026 Nov 19, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Zhiyi Yue, MA: The Data–Model–Evidence (DME) Framework for EHR-Based Disease Prediction 9:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM PHB 1055.07
Nov 19 2026 Nov 19, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Khadija Ziauddin: Perceived Barriers to Colonoscopy Screening among Spousal Dementia Caregivers 10:45:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 19 2026 Nov 19, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Rachit Sabharwal, BS, MS: Multimodal Deep Learning for Outcome Prediction After Traumatic Brain Injury 2:00:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM PHB 832.01
Nov 19 2026 Nov 19, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Zhuoyun Li, MPH: The Impact of Antidiabetic/Antihypertensive Medications on the ADRD risk 3:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM TBA
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Weixin Lu, MS: Ultra-Processed Food Intake, Sociodemographic Differences, and Early Cardiometabolic Risk 12:30:00 PM - 2:00:00 PM Microsoft Teams
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Michelle Pennington, MPH: Firearm-Related Suicide Among Professional Firefighters 1:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM WebEx
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Jinze Li: Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Viruses 1:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054, Room PHB 856; and via Microsoft Teams
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Adrick Harris, MPH:Voices from the Field: Job Satisfaction and Burnout Among Black Community-Based Nurses 1:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Thesis Presentation by Nathanael Emerick, BS: Proteomics Response to Commercial Spaceflight Across Five Missions 1:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM UTHealth School of Public Health, Room 312, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Weilu Zhao, MBBS, MS: Discovering HIV Symptom Patterns and Their Associations with Health Outcomes Using 2:00:00 PM - 3:30:00 PM TBD
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Kaitlin Brand, MPH, RD: Understanding severe maternal morbidity in Texas 2:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM Teams, SPH Austin 5th Floor Conference Room
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Nakaya Melvin, MPH: A Songbird Hatching from the Black Mama's Womb 2:00:00 PM - 3:30:00 PM Microsoft Teams
Nov 20 2026 Nov 20, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chengyuan Yang: Statistical Methods for Multivariate Clinical Endpoints and Healthcare Records 3:00:00 PM - 4:30:00 PM PHB 732.01
Nov 23 2026 Nov 23, 2026 Thesis Presentation by Young Jin Lee, BS: Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profiles Across HIV and Type 2 Diabetes Phenotypes 1:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM Microsoft Teams
Nov 23 2026 Nov 23, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Sheikh Zaman, MBBS, MPH: Effect Modification of ASD on the association of COO, Heavy metal, gene 2:00:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM Online (Microsoft Teams)
Nov 24 2026 Nov 24, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Shiwei Lin, MS: Methods for Biomedical Data Exploration and Analysis 2:30:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM PHB 714
Nov 24 2026 Nov 24, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Naishu Kui, MS: Improving the Reliability of Genetic Association Studies 2:30:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM SPH and online
Nov 30 2026 Nov 30, 2026 2026 Texas Food Is Medicine Movement: From Plate to Policy Summit 10:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM UTHealth Houston PHB Building
Dec 01 2026 Dec 01, 2026 Addressing Type 2 Diabetes Risk: Practical Culinary Medicine Strategies for Patients with Prediabetes 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM Teams - Virtual
Dec 01 2026 Dec 01, 2026 Epidemiology Career Seminar Series with Samuel Tundealao, PhD 4:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM PHD 913
Dec 03 2026 Dec 03, 2026 Supporting Type 2 Diabetes Management: Translating Nutrition Recommendations into Everyday Eating 12:00:00 PM - 12:30:00 PM Teams - Virtual
Dec 08 2026 Dec 08, 2026 Congenital Syphilis and the Neonate: What NICU and Newborn Teams Need to Know 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM Virtual - Microsoft Teams
Dec 09 2026 Dec 09, 2026 Implementation Science Seminar - Advancing the Science of Sustainability in Implementation Science 11:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM Online via Zoom
