Past Events

UTMB School of Public & Population Health National Public Health Week

NPHW 2023 — Centering and Celebrating Cultures in Health

Keynote Speaker: Chris Chanyasulkit, PhD, MPH

Our 2023 Public Health Symposium had a beautiful turn out with over 90 posters submitted from a range of topics. All of the posters that were presented were very informative and engaging, but we would like to especially highlight the poster winners!

Practice Poster Winners:

1^st Place: Lindsey MacPhail – “The Impact of an Immersive Partnership between Population Health Nursing Students and Higher Up Texas”

2^nd Place: Meghan Mallya – “Psychopharmacology for Primary Care: Increasing Provider Comfort with Psychiatric Treatment”

3^rd Place: Jacob Harper – “Community HCV Treatment Program - A Student Driven Approach”; Jennifer Odoi – “Sustaining Preventive Health Interventions through Student Involvement”

Research Poster Winners:

1^st Place: Rahul Venna – “Assessing the Readability of Online Patient Education Resources Related to Neophallus Reconstruction”

2^nd Place: Rylie Ju – “The Role of Dynapenia and Obesity on Cognitive Function in Mexican American Older Adults”

3^rd Place: Dorothea Morris – “Analysis of respiratory viral co-infection in clinical and animal models”