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Welcome our Fall 2022 Ph.D. Students

Adaeze Anamege Adaeze Anamege Mentor: Dr. Kelly Gurka What do you look forward to most as a future epidemiologist and your career in epidemiology? I am mostly looking forward to contributing to the health and well-being of women and children, especially in underserved areas in the US but mostly in…

UF to lead community-engaged research network for the All of Us Research Program

The University of Florida has received $1.86 million in initial funding from the National Institutes of Health to create a network that engages researchers from diverse backgrounds in the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is an NIH program designed to advance precision medicine, an approach that takes into account individual factors…

Two Epidemiology Alumni awarded the PHHP Outstanding Alumni 2022

The College of Public Health and Health Professions is proud to recognize 13 graduates with the 2022 Outstanding Alumni Awards. They will be recognized at a celebration on October 15 during PHHP Alumni Reunion. Two of our very own Epidemiology Alumni, Diana Rojas Alvarez, and Steve Gold were awarded the…

Dr. Mattia Prosperi received the R01 grant

Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., along with Dr. Marco Salemi, Ph.D., received the R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to build …

Alumna Sadaf Milani honored for Alzheimer’s and aging research

Sadaf Milani, Ph.D., M.P.H., a graduate of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions doctorate in epidemiology and master’s in public health programs, has received the 2022 Early Career Investigator Award from the Diversity and Disparities Professional Interest Group of the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to…

UF researchers use AI to predict new coronavirus variants

A world awash in waves of novel coronavirus variants is left to react to each new emergence. Will this one be as deadly as delta? As transmissible as omicron? Imagine if we could get ahead of the curve and predict the next one. That’s the goal of a new…

Welcome our Summer 2022 PhD Students

Mark Britton  Mentor: Dr. Robert Cook  What inspired you to study epidemiology? While I began my graduate career on a clinical track, and my background is in cognitive neuroscience, I was ultimately really impressed by epidemiological methods and population-level approaches to public health, and I think this is where I…