Heartland is recognized and contractually funded by the State of Texas to provide excellence, expertise, and innovation in training, medical consultation, and product development to reduce the impact of tuberculosis throughout the State of Texas.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects millions of lives each year across the country and around the globe. Learn more about TB from some of the brave survivors who share their experiences from their diagnoses to their triumphs and more by clicking on the image above and checking out the personal stories hosted on the CDC website.
Elizabeth Reyes, 30, has become familiar with the dreadful symptoms of TB. She’s been battling the illness for 17 months and has been an admitted patient for a year at San Antonio’s TCID, 200 miles from her home in Houston. To this day, she has no idea how she caught TB.
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The Texas Public Health Association invites abstract submissions for oral presentations and rapid-fire presentations on various public health topics including original research, program implementation and evaluation, community assessments, public health methods, theories, and issues relating to health promotion and disease prevention, community health, public health nursing, outbreak investigations, disaster preparedness and response, epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, mental health, maternal and child health, social determinants of health, population health, health administration, public health partnerships, public health accreditation, school health, vision health, oral health, aging, community health, public health urban planning, and health policies that affect individuals, groups, communities, and populations at any age or stage in life. The deadline to submit abstracts is Friday, November 8, 2024. Please click on the title for more information about the abstracts and/or to submit an abstract to TPHA.