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…
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…
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…
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 …
Epidemiology faculty, staff and NIDA T32 predoctoral fellows from the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions traveled to Thailand to participate in the 22nd World Psychiatric Association’s World Congress of Psychiatry, held in Bangkok August 3-6, and meet with partners at Chulalongkorn University.
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…
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…
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…
The Department of Epidemiology is pleased to introduce our newest faculty members. Takis Benos, Ph.D., Professor, joins us from the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. His background is in causal modeling; integrative analysis of big, biomedical data; gene expression regulation; advanced data modeling; and…
Lusine Yaghyjan, Ph.D., joined the Department of Epidemiology in 2013 as an Assistant Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati and continued her research as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University. Her areas of expertise include the epidemiology of breast cancer; mammographic breast density…
