The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio is a “COVID-19 pandemic baby” coming into its own as the pandemic’s tail end “brings to the fore additional public health challenges such as mental health crises and economic hardships,” the school’s founding dean said to the San Antonio City Council.

Vasan Ramachandran, MD, dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio, discusses the need for strategies to address health inequities post-pandemic. Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 6, 2023) — The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio, which begins accepting students in 2024, is a “COVID-19 […]

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to enhance individualized, timely and equitable access to care for cancer patients and their families. The effort will feature use of an innovative mobile app to provide nutritional support and real-time symptom management to patients undergoing anti-cancer treatment, particularly the underserved and those living long distances from the clinic.

Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Sept. 26, 2022) — One-third of 986 patients achieved long-term self-care of their type 2 diabetes after building trusting relationships with community health workers (promotores in Spanish) over 12 weeks, according to a newly published study by faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San […]