Rae Lynn Mitchell

Jan 8, 2025 | today.tamu.edu | Rae Lynn Mitchell |Lesley Henton

Researchers at Texas A&M University School of Public Health are beginning an innovative study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to examine how teenagers’ physical activity levels and mental health are influenced by their friends and environment during the summer months.

Oct 4, 2024 | today.tamu.edu | Rae Lynn Mitchell |Darren Benson

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health has been awarded a four-year, $2.8 million cooperative agreement by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. The funding will support research that will be used to guide national health policies impacting rural America.

Aug 1, 2024 | eurekalert.org | Rae Lynn Mitchell

Dr. Alva O. Ferdinand, head of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, has been named to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Advisory Committee on Rural Health by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra. She will serve a four-year term on the committee, which is comprised of nationally recognized rural health experts tasked with providing recommendations on rural health issues.

Mar 31, 2024 | eurekalert.org | Rae Lynn Mitchell

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health has released Rural Healthy People 2030—a companion piece to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2030. Rural Healthy People is published once each decade to identify the most important priorities from Healthy People for rural America stakeholders. This is the third iteration of this work for the center, and it can be downloaded for free at srhrc.tamu.edu.

Mar 6, 2024 | today.tamu.edu | Rae Lynn Mitchell |Lesley Henton

Dr. Natalie Johnson, an associate professor of environmental health in the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, has been awarded funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research air pollution and associated health risks resulting from the train derailment environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Her efforts were among those called “heroic” by President Biden during his recent visit to the site.