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The administrators and staff of the MARC would like to congratulate Ms. Pooja Tewari, our Graduate Research Assistant, and Mr. Adren Warling, one of our podcast guests, for their selection to participate in the Texas Society of Allied Health Professions (TSAHP) Student Leadership Program, which is a one-year experience designed for first year graduate students. 

The training is hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and will provide the interns with valuable health care leadership principles from the book New Leadership for Today’s Health Care Professionals; Concepts and Cases (2nd edition).​  

The interns will finalize their training with a professional leadership conference to be held in Edinburg, Texas, in September 2021.

We congratulate Ms. Tewari and Mr. Warling on their achievement and wish them the best!!!

UTEP Partnership Receives Federal Grant to Combat Opioid Abuse in West Texas Counties

The University of Texas at El Paso’s Minority AIDS Research Center (MARC) is the subrecipient of a $1 million implementation grant to target substance use disorders and opioid use disorders in five rural counties along the Texas-Mexico border.  Read More

CHS Professor Appointed to Texas Evaluation Network Board

Dr. Thenral Mangadu, associate professor of Public Health Sciences and director of UTEP’s Minority AIDS Research Center (MARC), has recently been appointed to the 2020 board of the Texas Evaluation Network (TEN) along with two other researchers from Texas as new board members.   Read More

TX Public Health Region 10 U.S.-MX Border Counties Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Implementation (RCORP-I) Consortium

This collaborative project supports the treatment for and prevention of substance use disorders, including opioid use disorders, in the low access and high risk rural counties of Hudspeth, Culberson, Presidio, Brewster and Jeff Davis located on the U.S.-Mexico border in the southwestern region of the State of Texas. Read More