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UTHealth Houston partners with city of Houston to establish new academic health department

UTHealth Houston announced today a partnership with the city of Houston to establish a new academic health department that will strengthen the region’s public health workforce, expand hands-on training opportunities, and deepen collaboration between academic experts and city health leaders.

From left: Dean Eric Boerwinkle, PhD; Theresa Tran, MD; Mayor John Whitmire; President Melina R. Kibbe, MD; and Scott Forbes. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)
Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert: World Cup travel and Ebola risk

Welcome to Ask the Expert, a UTHealth Houston newsroom series in which leading physicians examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda and how the United States could be affected through travel.

Dr. Luis Ostrosky standing in a lab infront of a blood bank for infectious disease testing in a white lab coat with his hands folded across his abdomen and smiling.

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