The Health Calendar

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.)