General Public Health
This U.S. agency, headquartered in Atlanta, leads the nation’s disease control and prevention efforts.
What is the CDC?
Often called the “sunshine vitamin,” your body makes this nutrient when exposed to sunlight.
What is vitamin D?
This name for the coronavirus pandemic disease literally stands for “Coronavirus Disease 2019.”
What is COVID-19?
Most colleges have this on-campus facility where students can access free or low-cost medical services.
What is the student health center?
This United Nations agency coordinates worldwide health initiatives and outbreak response.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This is the broad field that goes beyond hospitals, covering prevention, environment, and communities.
These beverages are the number one source of added sugar in the U.S. diet.
What are sodas/soft drinks?
Malaria is caused not by a virus or bacterium, but by this type of organism.
What is a parasite (Plasmodium)?
This training helps you recognize and respond to someone in a mental health crisis until professionals step in.
What is Mental Health First Aid?
This continent has the world’s highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
What is Africa?
Known as “the study of epidemics,” this field investigates how diseases spread in populations.
What is epidemiology?
When reading a food label, the “mg of sodium” is measuring how much of this mineral is inside.
What is salt?
Vaccines, handwashing, and masks are all examples of these public health measures.
What are disease prevention strategies?
Many campuses provide these professionals who can help with stress, anxiety, and academic pressures.
Who are counselors (or mental-health professionals)?
This global health nonprofit, co-founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, champions “a preferential option for the poor,” providing high-quality care in impoverished settings.
What is Partners In Health?
In 1854, John Snow removed a water pump handle in London to stop this disease outbreak.
What is Cholera?
This U.S. dietary guide is divided into Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Protein, and Dairy.
What is MyPlate?
Once called “consumption,” this lung disease is caused by a bacterium.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
During fall and spring semesters, the UTD Student Health Center sees students Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to this time.
What is 5 p.m.?
Partners In Health is well known for pioneering community-based treatment of this infectious disease, including drug-resistant forms, in places like Peru and Russia.
What is tuberculosis?
This public health achievement was the first human disease eradicated worldwide in 1980.
What is smallpox?
Lack of this nutrient during pregnancy is a major public health concern, because deficiency can cause neural tube defects in newborns.
What is folic acid (or folate)?
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is notorious for spreading this disease
What is dengue (also accept Zika, chikungunya, or yellow fever)?
UTD’s Student Counseling Center offers crisis walk‑in services during office hours, and students can also call this 24/7 hotline number for help any time.
What is 972‑UTD‑TALK (972‑883‑8255)?
During the 2010 earthquake response in Haiti, Partners In Health helped lead the fight against this waterborne infectious disease.
What is cholera?