Callie Richmond

Trib+Health brings you a listing of meetings, conferences and other events of note in the Texas health community:

Sunday, Sept. 11

  • Ninth Annual Texas Obesity Awareness Week (Sept. 11-17)

Thursday, Sept. 15

  • Texas Health Champion Award Ceremony; The Blanton Museum of Art, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin (6:00 p.m.) *registration required

Friday, Sept. 16

  • Remarks on the White House Cancer Moonshot, with Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden; Rice University’s Tudor Fieldhouse, 6100 Main St., Houston (3:00 p.m.)

Thursday, Sept. 22

  • “When the Prescription Becomes the Problem,” A Community Response to the Opiate Epidemic; Hurst Conference Center, 1601 Campus Drive, Hurst (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

Friday, Sept. 23

  • Latino Health Summit; MD Anderson Library, Rockwell Pavilion, University of Houston, 4333 University Drive, Houston  (8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.)

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Sarah Schroeder wrote about medicine and science for The Texas Tribune in 2016 while completing a master's in public health UT-Austin, where she studied health promotion, health communication, and health...