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Roxanna Bendixen, Ph.D., OTR/L, examines how disease and disability affect children’s participation in activities, social development and quality of life.

A training program that strengthens the muscles involved in inspiration can help patients who have been unable to get off a ventilator — a condition known as failure to wean — breathe independently.

Leading drug dependence and infectious disease epidemiologist William W. Latimer, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named chair of the department of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions.

In 2009 when test results on the ailing New York woman who had vacationed in Key West came back positive for the dengue virus, it was the first reported case in Florida since 1934. Dana Focks, Ph.D., a research professor in the department of environmental and global health who develops mathematical models for vector-borne disease, is examining the cause of the outbreak.

Jamie Reilly, Ph.D., is developing treatments that may help patients with progressive language impairments preserve language as the disease advances, helping patients to remember the name of a favorite place or loved one longer.

Inhale... Exhale... Whether we’re awake or asleep, breathing is a function that rarely gets a second thought. But when there’s a break in the respiratory system’s circuit, say with a spinal cord injury, breathing may not be so natural.

The University of Florida has appointed internationally recognized epidemiologist Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., the founding chair of UF’s department of epidemiology, a newly created department administered jointly by the College of Public Health and Health Professions and the College of Medicine.

New PHHP scientists are studying agents that cause respiratory illness. Read about their research on swine and avian influenza and inhaled nanoparticles.

There is a common misperception among young people that hookah smoking is cigarettes’ harmless cousin. That’s a troubling notion for public health researchers like Tracey Barnett, Ph.D.

A hand-held device that strengthens the muscles involved in swallowing can address a serious symptom of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new University of Florida study.