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Dr. Wang selected as an Editorial Board member of the Annal of Epidemiology

Yan Wang, Ph.D., was recently selected as an Annals of Epidemiology Editorial Board member. As an Editorial Board member, Dr. Wang will serve two years reviewing 5-6 submitted manuscripts per year and advising on journal policy. Additional duties include attracting new authors and submissions, promoting the journal to…

Dr. Robert Cook and Dr. Yan Wang (MPIs) receive NIH/NIAAA R01 grant

Robert Cook, Ph.D., Professor, and Dr. Yan Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, in Epidemiology, were recently awarded a new $3.13 million new R01 grant from NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for their study entitled “Technology-based assessments and intervention to reduce alcohol consumption and improve HIV viral suppression…

Dr. Mattia Prosperi received a Syngenta Crop Protection US industry-sponsored grant

Professor in Epidemiology and Associate Dean of AI and Innovation, Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., and Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Chief Data Scientist, UF Health, Jiang Bian, Ph.D., were awarded the Syngenta North America Environmental Safety Strategic Science Enabling (ESSSE) initiative for 2023. This grant will support their study entitled “Twitter…

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…

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 …

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…

Dr. Shantrel Canidate awarded NIH fellowship designed to improve diversity in AI research

University of Florida faculty member Shantrel S. Canidate, Ph.D., M.P.H., has received a research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity program, or AIM-AHEAD. Canidate is an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the UF College of…

Qualitative Research Colloquium

First Colloquium for Fall 2022: August 10, 2022; 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Dr. Deepthi S. Varma, PhD, MPhil, MSW, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology along with Dr. Mary Ellen-Young, Professor Emeritus, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Florida leads the on-line Qualitative Research Colloquium, alternate Wednesdays, 4-5 pm ET during…