Oct 23 2026 Oct 23, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Aodong Mei, MPA: Predicting U.S. Surface Formaldehyde for a One Health View of Influenza 3:00:00 PM - 4:00:00 PM Online
Oct 27 2026 Oct 27, 2026 UTHealth Houston GoPA!–GoPE! Summit: Advancing Physical Activity from Surveillance to Implementation & Policy 9:00:00 AM - 1:00:00 PM https://new.globalphysicalactivityobservatory.com/summit/index.html
Oct 27 2026 Oct 27, 2026 Epidemiology Career Seminar Series with Eileen Nehme, PhD 1:00:00 PM - 2:00:00 PM PHB Room 956
Oct 28 2026 Oct 28, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Xingyan Li, MSPH: Hybrid Methods for Clustered Data in Randomized Eye Trials Under an Unified Design 10:30:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM SPH HOU Group Room 714
Oct 29 2026 Oct 29, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Saswati Upadhyay: Neighborhood Opportunity and Pediatric Asthma in Harris County: A Mixed- Methods Study 9:00:00 AM - 10:30:00 AM PHB Room 255
Oct 29 2026 Oct 29, 2026 Food is Medicine Interventions to Support Food & Nutrition Security: Where do we go from here? 11:00:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM Virtual - Microsoft Teams
Nov 05 2026 Nov 05, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Catherine Vaziri PhD(c), MPH: Molecular Ecology of Hard Tick Species in Texas 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM PHB 956/Teams
Nov 06 2026 Nov 06, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Anjolaoluwa Olunaike MPH: Biculturalism & Vaping among Mexican-American College Students in Texas 11:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 06 2026 Nov 06, 2026 Dissertation Defense by Qianzi Zhang, MPH: From index hospitalization to readmission: mortality, costs, and thirty-day readmission 2:00:00 PM - 3:30:00 PM Teams
Nov 10 2026 Nov 10, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by May Hashish, MD, MSc: Work-related risk factors for cardiometabolic and chronic kidney diseases 9:00:00 AM - 10:30:00 AM Microsoft Teams meeting
Nov 11 2026 Nov 11, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chidera Emeto, MA: Perinatal Social Support Among Black Families in Texas 10:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM Microsoft Teams
Nov 11 2026 Nov 11, 2026 Thesis Presentation by Ian Huh, BS: Association Between Physical Activity and Sleep Among 8th- and 11th-Grade Students 10:00:00 AM - 11:00:00 AM Teams
Nov 11 2026 Nov 11, 2026 Practicum Learning Contracts Information Session 12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM Teams
Nov 11 2026 Nov 11, 2026 Dissertation Proposal Defense by Bonifacio Vega II, MPA, BSHS: Culturally Tailored Responses to Food Insecurity in Maverick County 5:30:00 PM - 7:30:00 PM Teams
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 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 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 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 Proposal Defense by Michelle Pennington, MPH: Firearm-Related Suicide Among Professional Firefighters 1:00:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM WebEx
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
