Derailing disease
Dr. Ira Longini is working to ensure humanity is ready for the debut of the next new infectious disease.
Dr. Ira Longini is working to ensure humanity is ready for the debut of the next new infectious disease.
Jocelyn Widmer, Chad Weber and Emily Robinson conducted internship projects designed to collect baseline data for a new study of epidemic cholera. They are the first UF M.P.H. students to complete internships in Haiti.
Ben Anderson is the first American student to intern with the Chinese National Influenza Center, part of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Wenyan Wu (right) a PHHP bachelor's in health science student, provides Mandarin language interpretation services for patients at Shands at UF as part of a program founded by third-year medical student David Zhou (left).
The department of environmental and global health now offers a One Health concentration in its public health doctoral program. It is the first One Health academic program of its kind. One Health seeks to involve human, animal and environmental health experts in public health problem solving.
Since losing his parents at age 6 during the Second Sudanese Civil War, Jacob Atem has had a perilous yet rewarding journey to the University of Florida. He is now a student in the college's Ph.D. program in health services research.
Yanpin Wang, a doctoral student in biostatistics, received a 2012 Distinguished Student Paper Award from the International Biometric Society’s Eastern North American Region Committee.
Martina Spiess, a Ph.D student in the college’s Rehabilitation Science Doctoral Program, received an Alec Courtelis International Student Academic Award.
The grant will support behavioral health training for colleagues in three Indian cities and increase research opportunities between the University of Florida and Indian partners.
The public health field laboratory will allow UF researchers to work with colleagues at the Haiti Ministry of Public Health and Population to quickly identify and contain infectious disease outbreaks.