Austin holds grand opening for UTHealth Houston campus [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — Downtown Austin continues to see investment and growth in the health care and medical sector.

On Thursday, the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health held its grand opening. The nearly 65,000-square-foot building is nine stories high and situated near Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

It features research labs and has a number of programs including epidemiology, health promotion and behavioral sciences. The school has a goal of helping families and young children.

“The biggest benefit for the community, from a research perspective and community service perspective, has to do with child health,” said Steven Kelder. “On top of that [we’re here] to train students. That’s why we try to make this building so friendly.”