We are proud to announce that Danmeng Li, Danielle Sharpe, and Amy Elliott received their MSE degrees this April. Amy Elliott has become a T32 fellow in the Epidemiology PhD program here at the University of Florida. Danielle Sharpe was admitted to the PhD program at Emory University. Danmeng…
Martin Wegman, an Epidemiology PhD/MD student, has been selected as an Outstanding Graduate Student by the Graduate Student Council at this year’s Graduate Student Council awards ceremony. Abenaa Acheampong Jones was asked to participate in the Graduate School’s first annual Graduate Student Appreciation Week Research Day to present her…
At the peak of the Ebola epidemic last fall came a frightening new possibility: a mutation that could allow the disease to spread through the air. Now University of Florida researchers have dispelled this concern using data from current and past Ebola outbreaks.
In the month of March, two Epidemiology PhD students successfully defended their dissertations. On Friday, March 13th, Xingdi Hu successfully defended his dissertation titled Alcohol Treatment Use in HIV-Infected Individuals with Hazardous Drinking: Utilization, Drinking Outcomes, and Survival. Xingdi’s college career has been at the University of Florida and he is…
Chris Delcher, a graduate from Summer 2014 and now an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, is part of team that has partnered with state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to analyze new developments and examine the effectiveness of the state monitoring entity.
Dyanne Herrera, M.P.H., serves as the chief of the Office of Assessment and Evaluation in the Bureau of Women’s and Children’s Health at the Arizona Department of Health Services. She oversees the data unit and epidemiologist and is involved in coordinating all policies, strategies and activities surrounding assessment, evaluation…
The study's lead author is Eugene Dunne, a third-year doctoral student in clinical and health psychology at UF’s College of Public Health and Health Professions and a predoctoral fellow in the T32 Training Program, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse as the University of Florida Substance Abuse Training Center in Public Health. This new training program is directed by Dr. Linda Cottler and co-directed by Dr. Sara-Jo Nixon.
Adam Reid, a Master of Science in Epidemiology student as well as a Clinical and Health Psychology PhD student, has been awarded the 2015 APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology. The award recognizes community service integrating the highest standards for professional psychological clinical practice and science.
The Department of Epidemiology is proud to announce two students graduating with their PhDs this semester. On Monday, November 17, 2014, Sunil Swami, MBBS, MPH, defended his dissertation, titled “Anticholinergic Medication Use and Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Older Adults with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease”. Sunil was mentored…
A University of Florida epidemiology Ph.D. student has received nearly half a million dollars in phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables individuals worldwide to test bold ideas to address persistent health and development challenges.
