The Texan: Texas Receives $104 Million Federal Grant to Fight Opioid Epidemic

October 22, 2020

Jennifer Potter, PhD, MPH, and the $12 million grantt she received to fight the opioid epidemic, are mentioned in this story. Dr. Potter is a professor of psychiatry, vice dean for research in the School of Medicine and associate vice president for South Texas Public Health Initiatives. Read the story.





KSAT 12: WHO study finds remdesivir didn’t help COVID-19 patients; UT Health weighs in

October 19, 2020

KSAT 12 localized the national story involving a statement of the World Health Organization (WHO) with an interview of Dr. Thomas Patterson, Infectious Diseases, who is leading a UT Health San Antonio-University Health System study site on remdesivir, as part of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trials (ACTT) sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and […]


Medical News Today: US election 2020: Undocumented status and mental healthcare access

October 19, 2020

In this perspective article, Luz Maria Garcini, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the Center for Research to Advance Community Health at UT Health San Antonio, considers what the upcoming presidential election might mean for the access to mental health care of people living with undocumented status in the United States. Read the article.