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…
With the availability of large databases of electronic medical records, biomedical researchers have rich resources for studies that predict prognoses and treatment outcomes. Yet, prediction models, including those that employ artificial intelligence technology, can be prone to data bias that may produce inaccurate results and unintended harm.
Three Epidemiology doctoral students, Nicole Fitzgerald, Alyssa Falise, and Nae Won, received the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) NIDA Director’s Travel Awards. This award is given to 20 early-career scientists to cover the costs of travel to attend the CPDD 84th Annual Scientific Meeting that was held on…
Dr. Linda Cottler and Dr. Catherine Striley received recognition from the University of Florida for completing ten years of service. They both joined the University of Florida in the summer of 2011. Both have made mountainous contributions to the University of Florida and the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Cottler was the…
When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes. According to University of Florida College of Nursing associate professor Jennifer Dungan, Ph.D., M.S.N., B.S.N, many of the current symptom profiles and…
