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The POST features Margo Klar in article

Saving babies one snip at a time PhD student receives Gates Foundation grant to create umbilical cord cutting device By Allyson Fox One-and-a-half million neonatal deaths worldwide due to infection, with many beginning as umbilical cord infections; 277,376 neonatal deaths alone attributed to tetanus in one year; and…

PhD student receives $100,000 grant to create umbilical cord cutting device

The kindest cut By Allyson Fox Margo Klar is developing a ceramic cutting device to prevent umbilical cord infections in newborns. Photo by Maria Belen Farias. One and a half million neonatal deaths worldwide due to infection, with many beginning as umbilical cord infections; 277,376 neonatal deaths alone attributed…

MPH Graduate recognized at PHHP Outstanding Alumni Awards

Dr. April J. Johnson, DVM, MPH, PhD, a 2006 graduate of the Master of Public Health Program – Epidemiology track was one of the alumni recognized at the college’s Outstanding Alumni Awards ceremony in November 2011. Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Purdue University…

“Number 1 graduate”

September 14, 2011- Spotlight on University of Florida’s first PhD in Epidemiology graduate, Jennifer Reingle.

MPH graduate named a UF Outstanding Young Alumni

Dr. Tara Anderson Creel, a 2007 graduate of the Master of Public Health program – epidemiology track, was one of eight alumni recognized at the college’s Outstanding Alumni Awards ceremony in October 2010. She was also named a UF Outstanding Young Alumni for 2011. She recently completed her Ph.D. at…

MPH Graduate profiled in issue of the Post

The dreamer and doer Student hopes to pair public health and orthopedics to help the developing world By Bridget Higginbotham A childhood doctor inspired Onyekachukwu “Onyeka” Osakwe, M.B., 30, to become an orthopedist, but his own experiences inspired him to go into public health. Now he hopes to combine the two.