For the first time, UH researchers have mapped Houston’s “mental health deserts,” revealing inequities in access to care across the city. The study, published Oct. 15 in Frontiers of Public Health, highlights the uneven distribution of mental health professionals and calls for targeted interventions and policy solutions. “So many neighborhoods had no mental health professionals in their ZIP codes,” said Chakema Carmack, senior author and associate professor of health. “It does follow patterns of other lack-of-access variables out there, such as food access, physical care access, clinic access and insurance coverage.”

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Charlotte Carp, UH College of Education program director and a board-certified behavior analyst, talks about how the University of Houston is expanding its behavioral health offerings this fall to provide students with comprehensive training in a high-demand field of Applied Behavior Analysis with the goal of better serving the community.