Every year, the American Public Health Association designates the first week of April as National Public Health Week. The student organization, Texas Public Health, works to bring the event to the UT Austin campus. During the week, they promote health education, disease prevention, and population health within the UT community.

The kick-off event is Carnival. Various university organizations, student organizations, and nonprofit groups will be hosting carnival-themed health education activities. They will have FREE stickers, t-shirts to tie-dye, and FREE HIV testing by AIDS Services of Austin. Also take a break from exams and destress by PETTING a miniature horse from Healing with Horses Ranch and pit bulls from Love-A-Bull. 

Participating UT Organizations: Healthy Horns Clinic, Healthy Horns Peer Educators, and Voices against Violence

Participating Student Organizations: Texas Royals, American Society for Microbiology, Texas Pre-Dental Society, HOSA, Health and Society Club, Texas Nutrition, Texas 4000 for Cancer, DAPA, NAMI, Health Careers Mentorship Program (HCMP), Know Your Medicine, Women in Medicine, SNPhA Initiatives, and Longhorn EMS

Participating Austin Orgs: Healing with Horses Ranch, Love-A-Bull, AIDS Services of Austin 

Special thanks to: Student Government, Senate of College Councils, Texas Parents, University Co-op, Events and Entertainment, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, College of Natural Sciences