Dr. Cottler and Dr. Nixon will lead one of the 11 national sites for the NIH Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

A renowned researcher presented findings on the effects of marijuana on youth development to the UF community Thursday night. In honor of National Recovery Month, prominent researcher Dr. Maureen Boyle presented to a crowd of 40 people various research findings of marijuana used among young people via live stream video.

“The innovation of HealthStreet is that we are reaching out to people who are usually not given a voice in research,” said Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., HealthStreet’s founding director and chair of the UF department of epidemiology at the College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine.

The American College of Epidemiology has awarded Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., its 2015 Special Award for Outstanding Contributions Through Systemic Epidemiologic Approaches to Improving Health. She will be honored at the organization’s annual meeting in Atlanta in September.

Three PhD students in Epidemiology were selected for scholarships to attend the 7th Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) at the University of Washington this summer. Sheldon Waugh, Shivani Khan, and Sonam Lasopa will travel to Seattle in July to participate in the Summer Institute,…

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…

National Public Health Week at the University of Florida featured UF HealthStreet’s first national forum, “Our Community, Our Health.” On April 9, this program brought together community members from nine CTSI locations throughout the country for a conversation with health researchers. Many of the sites began with a reception…

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.