Lusine Yaghjyan, MD, MPH, Ph.D., was recently invited to serve as a standing member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cancer Biomarkers Study Section (CBSS), Center for Scientific Review (CSR). The CBSS CSR consists of 20-40 top-ranked scientists who review NIH applications on the discovery,…
Jerne Shapiro, MPH, Lecturer, received the 2022 Superior Accomplishment Award at the university level.
Linda Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E., and Catherine Striley, Ph.D., M.S.W., were awarded the First Prize Winner of the Community Engagement Model that Bolsters Trust and Trustworthiness.
Natalie Chichetto, Ph.D., MSW, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, will serve as the site investigator for the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS), the longest US observational study of HIV. She will be an internal cohort resource and liaison for those interested in developing their own research concepts using the MWCCS data.
The Department of Epidemiology is pleased to introduce our new Clinical Associate Professor, Dr. Heather Stark. Dr. Stark joins us from the college of Public Health and Health Professions, where she served as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Environment and Global Health and conducted global health…
Dr. Yan Wang, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, received funding from the National Institute on Aging to study the effects of medical marijuana usage in older adults.
Research Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, Dongyu Zhang, received funding from the UF Health Cancer Center (UFHCC) Pilot Program to study the effects of walking exercise intervention to reduce fatigue in older breast cancer survivors. This 2-year pilot trial is supported by the pilot fund in UFHCC with a total budget…
With advancements in HIV treatments, people with HIV are living longer. More than half of Americans with HIV are now over age 50. Yet with longer lives comes an additional health concern. As people living with HIV age, about half will experience some sort of cognitive decline. Now, with the…
As cases of the omicron variant continue to surge, two federal agencies have approved booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-old children. Sonja A. Rasmussen, M.D., a professor in the departments of pediatrics and epidemiology at the UF College of Medicine and the UF College of Public Health and…
University of Florida faculty are part of a multistate team that will work to boost COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates in parts of the country where health care skepticism is common and vaccination rates are low.
