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BHS student Carolina De La Rosa Mateo spent two weeks in Ibagué, Colombia, giving public health workshops and conducting medical history and fitness evaluations of the community's children.

Dr. Linda Cottler is the recipient of the Special Award for Outstanding Contributions Through Systemic Epidemiologic Approaches to Improving Health from the American College of Epidemiology.

UF researchers, including PHHP's Dr. Ira Longini and Dr. Sarah McKune, join the worldwide response to Ebola.

Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues outline three methods for deploying vaccine trials in emergency situations.

Jacob Ball and Salah Uddin Khan were among just three American participants and 18 worldwide chosen to attend an infectious diseases workshop held in Mexico.

Razan Alfakir, a Ph.D. student in the department of speech, language, and hearing sciences and a native of Syria, received the Alec Courtelis Award recognizing academic achievement and contributions department, college and community.

Margo Klar, a doctoral student in the department of epidemiology, will conduct feasibility testing of a ceramic umbilical cord cutting device she created for use in low-resource countries.

More UF Health educators, researchers and students, including several from PHHP, are working in the global community than ever before, solving global health problems and exchanging knowledge.

Writing in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Dr. Xinguang Chen, a professor in the department of epidemiology, examines the reasons for global health’s current popularity.

Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues say there is a nearly 20 percent chance that isolated cases will likely make their way to the United States by the end of September.