From the seas to the skies, we are public health.

Joined April 2025
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Space is on everyone's mind today. Aerospace medicine is the human side of it. The science of keeping people healthy when they fly, and bringing them home. Congratulations to the UTMB Aerospace Medicine Residency Class of 2026, honored Thursday at Space Center Houston. 🚀
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Congratulations to faculty from the UTMB School of Nursing and the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases on presenting their work at the 2026 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference. Read our latest spotlight to learn how this collaborative initiative is helping prepare future healthcare professionals for emerging infectious disease threats: utmb.us/g16 #UTMB #SchoolOfNursing #InfectiousDiseases #GlobalHealth #CUGH2026
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Dr. Vibhuti Gupta received the @utsystem Rising STARs award, launching the DIVA-AI Laboratory at UTMB. The lab will develop multimodal AI models that unify patient imaging, genomics, wearables, and clinical records. utmb.us/g0z
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Get to Know Us begins Dr. Meredith Masel’s faculty feature. She shares lessons from peer population health leaders on department growth, faculty and student recruitment, and building programs with staying power. Watch utmb.us/g0x
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A medical manual from the 1800s had a section on what to do at the birth of "monsters." Dr. Miriam Rich's first book traces that history. Monstrous Conceptions, @ColumbiaUP, July 2026: utmb.us/g0n
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Dr. Muhammad Amith received the Analytics Track Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2026) in Minneapolis for his work on Ontokeeper-Desktop, a biomedical ontology evaluation tool. zhang-informatics.github.io/…
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Recent UTMB MD/MPH graduate Helen-Margaret Onuorah published a Daily Yonder analysis from her practicum, using federal data to map Texas nursing home staffing and inspection ratings. Dr. Brian Downer mentored the work. dailyyonder.com/in-texas-rur…
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Clare McNerlin, MD, a PGY-2 resident at UTMB specializing in emergency medicine and aerospace medicine, received AMSRO’s Anita Mantri, PhD Memorial Award during the 2026 AsMA-UHMS Annual Scientific Meeting. Read more: utmb.edu/spph/about-us/news/…
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SPPH administrative team members held their first staff development activity yesterday with an afternoon of bowling. Thank you to our admins for the work you do every day!
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Congratulations to our MD/MPH graduates, who celebrated commencement with the JSSOM Class of 2026 on May 30! A special congratulations to Shilpa Rajagopal, MD, MPH, class speaker and recipient of the Gold-Headed Cane Award, UTMB’s highest recognition for a medical student.
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
The Gold-Headed Cane award is chosen by the graduating class — UTMB's highest recognition for a medical student. Shilpa Rajagopal, who completed both her MD and MPH, received it this year! Congratulations, Shilpa!
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Congratulations to our aerospace medicine residents on winning the RAM Bowl again this year, a national competition that brings together programs from across the military and academic medicine. Proud of how they represent UTMB! utmb.us/fyq @UTMBPresident @UTMBProvost
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Monserrat Hinojosa, MPH (Epidemiology) with a Certificate in Global Health, spent four weeks in Lima working with the Peruvian CDC on dengue and tuberculosis research. She talks about how that experience deepened her interest in global health.
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
At the Aerospace Medical Association meeting in Denver, our residents won the RAM Bowl again, faculty led the field's education committees, and alumni earned several career and lifetime honors. Three decades of training, in one week. utmb.us/fyq
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Utpol Das, MPH (Epidemiology) and 2026 SPPH Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award recipient, came to UTMB from Bangladesh with eight years of public health field experience. He talks about finding his niche in aging research and the support he found along the way.
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Sinaan Momin, MPH (Public Health Practice), reflects on how his time at UTMB SPPH broadened his view of public health to include policy and population-level dimensions. Sinaan is applying to dental school, and his MPH research focused on oral health access in Texas.
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UTMB School of Public & Population Health retweeted
Public health approaches are strongest when they fit daily life. Our faculty focus on practical strategies that are simple, available, and built around what people value. Explore PHHD research: utmb.edu/spph/department/of-…
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Anh Truonghuynh's two UTMB MPH capstone projects — a Galveston community garden and a reproductive law research paper — both came back to one question: what happens when public health systems aren't built for the people they serve. utmb.us/fy3
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Andrew Tijerina, MPH (Epidemiology), reflects on how his internship at the Texas DSHS Zoonosis Control Program shaped his view of public health. Andrew worked on vector-borne and zoonotic disease surveillance across about 10 Southeast Texas counties.
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Izabella Galindo, MPH (Epidemiology), reflects on how her time at UTMB's School of Public and Population Health sharpened her research interests in aging and correctional health. Izabella served as Vice President of the SPPH Student Association this past year.
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