New grant allows for improved training of community health workers to engage minority populations in research where they are often underrepresented and health disparities exist.
Dr. Hui Hu, assistant professor in Epidemiology, received a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) R21 grant. Dr. Hu, with MPI Dr. Jiang Bian from the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, will utilize the OneFlorida EHR repository to identify novel environmental factors associated with severe COVID-19,…
Epidemiology doctoral student Mmadili Ilozumba had her manuscript, entitled “Associations between Choline Metabolites and Genetic Polymorphisms in One-Carbon Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women: The Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Nutrition. Mentored by assistant professor in Epidemiology Dr. Ting-Yuan (David) Cheng, Ms. Ilozumba analyzed…
Epidemiology doctoral student Inyoung Jun received the prestigious UF Informatics Institute (UFII) Graduate Student Fellowship for her proposal, “Dynamic treatment regime modeling for antibiotic resistance drugs.” Mentored by associate professor in Epidemiology Dr. Mattia Prosperi, Ms. Jun aims to build a personalized treatment model of antibiotic resistance in order…
Dr. Ting-Yuan (David) Cheng, assistant professor in Epidemiology, recently received a UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Precision Health Initiative pilot grant for his proposal, “Body composition and high-plex protein expression profiling to inform breast cancer therapy and prognosis: A pilot study in OneFlorida.” The study will pilot…
The University of Florida will lead nationwide efforts to identify emerging drug abuse trends as the coordinating center for the National Drug Early Warning System, or NDEWS. The surveillance network is critical for monitoring the ongoing opioid crisis and identifying new public health threats, such as the rise in new psychoactive…
Three students in Dr. Cottler’s lab had manuscripts accepted for publication on the same day: Amy Elliott’s “Exposure to medicines in the family medicine cabinet: is it a harbinger of later opioid dependence?” in Substance Use & Misuse; Ayodeji Otufowora’s “Sex differences in willingness to participate in research based…
Dr. Linda Cotter, PHHP associate dean for research and dean’s professor in Epidemiology; Dr. Catherine Striley, research associate professor in Epidemiology; and their multi-institutional team received a five-year National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) grant. NDEWS is a surveillance program that will detect novel psychoactive substances nationwide with the…
University of Florida researchers are crossing disciplinary lines to harness the power of artificial intelligence and predict where future HIV/AIDS hot spots may emerge. Professors Mattia Prosperi, of UF College of Public Health and Health Professions; Marco Salemi, of UF College of Medicine; and…
Through a newly funded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research, or RAPID, grant, University of Florida researchers in environmental and global health and in epidemiology are on a mission to improve personal protective equipment to better protect health care workers and the broader community from infection with SARS-COV-2, the virus…
