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Inyoung Jun was selected as one of the 2023 AMIA LEAD Fund Trainee Scholarship awardees and received financial support to attend 2023 AMIA Annual Symposium in New Orleans. At the conference, she did poster presentation about causal g-formula application on invasive MRSA treatment strategy.
People living with HIV may face hard choices when balancing their own health needs with caring for a pet, a study led by a University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions researcher finds. For the study, which appears in the journal PLOS ONE, 36% of people with…
With a five-year $3.2 million U01 award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a team of researchers from the UF Health Cancer Center and the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center will study the benefits and harms of medical marijuana in breast cancer patients. Jennifer Hu, Ph.D., left, and…
For Liu, the grant will help her achieve a long-term research goal: implementing clinical decision support tools in outpatient settings to help providers better identify women who may benefit from HIV testing and the HIV prevention medication, PrEP. . The research enhancement program will help her achieve this goal of…
On October 17, 2023, Inyoung Jun successfully completed her dissertation defense for “Leveraging Real World Data and Machine Learning to Improve Clinical Management of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections.” She is set to graduate in Fall 2023 and will start her career in the medical industry as a senior biostatistician from…
Catalina Lopez-Quintero, Ph.D., discusses how her background shaped her experience #HispanicHeritageMonth.
Yan Wang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, was chosen to receive the 2023 Ayman El-Mohandes Young Professional Public Health Innovation Award for her groundbreaking work in mobile health. According to the American Public Health Association website,…
Fall 2023: Starting September 6, 2023; 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Biweekly Wed Dr. Deepthi S. Varma, PhD, MPhil, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, leads the online Qualitative Research Colloquium, alternate Wednesdays, 4-5 pm ET during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Drs. Varma is a qualitative research expert with…
After a surge in summer travel, COVID numbers are on the rise just as Florida schools resume classes. COVID-19 case rates are higher than they were last year. In Florida, hospitalizations are up, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention forecast that number will double in September. But as…
A new University of Florida College of Medicine study reinforces the influence of the news media during a health emergency, showing older adults who spent more time following the news every day were more likely to adhere to recommended COVID-19 safety precautions early in the pandemic. This also occurred in older…
