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Drew A Westmoreland

Drew A Westmoreland, MSPH, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department: Department of Epidemiology
Business Phone: (352) 294-5945
Business Email: westmorelanddrew@ufl.edu
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Accomplishments

  1. NIH Loan Repayment Program Awardee

    National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

  2. Member

    Delta Omega, Public Health Honor Society, Iota Chapter

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

  1. HSC4970 – Public Health and Health Professions Senior Honors Thesis

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  2. PHC6971 – Research for Master’s Thesis

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  3. PHC7727 – Grant Writing for Population Health Research

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  4. PHC6941 – MPH Applied Practice Experience

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  5. PHC7918 – Epidemiology Independent Study

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  6. PHC6905 – Independent Study

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  7. PHC6000 – Epidemiology Methods I

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  8. PHC6940 – Master of Public Health Capstone

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  9. HSC4913 – Supervised Research Experience

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Profile

Dr Westmoreland is a behavioral and HIV/STI epidemiologist currently appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions as well as the College of Medicine at UF. As an NIH-funded researcher (K01AA029047 – PI; P30 AI124414 NIH Supplement – PD), her research evaluates how individual, social, and structural influences intersect to shape sexual well-being, HIV and STI risk, prevention, and care—including uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) among populations most affected.

Dr Westmoreland is also among a select group of U.S. researchers at cutting edge of work on non-alcoholic beverages that mimic alcohol (e.g., 0% beer, dealcoholized wine), generating novel insights into their potential role in harm reduction. Finally, she is an emerging leader in technology-driven approaches to epidemiologic research, leveraging online platforms and remote biospecimen collection to build inclusive, non-clinic-based cohorts and reach populations often missed by traditional study designs.

She holds multiple institutional and national leadership roles, including Assistant Director of the UF Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC), committee appointments for the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) and Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), and editorial board memberships for Sexuality Research and Social Policy (SRSP) and The Journal of Sex Research (JSR). Dr Westmoreland serves as a mentor on both the NIAAA and NIDA T32 training grants housed in the UF Department of Epidemiology.

Prior to joining UF, Dr Westmoreland was a Research Assistant Professor at CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, where she also completed her postdoctoral training. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA, her MSPH in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina, and her BS in Public Health Sciences from Clemson University.

Areas of Interest

  • Alcohol and substance use
  • Behavioral epidemiology
  • HIV
  • LGBTQ+ health
  • Sexual health
  • Sexually transmitted infections

Publications

Academic Articles

Presentations

Grants

  1. Real-World Effectiveness of Doxy-PEP for STI Prevention Among People with HIV: Addressing Hazardous Alcohol Use and Microbiome-Driven Inflammation

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIAAA

  2. Identifying actionable multilevel intervention strategies to improve cardiovascular health among people with HIV

    Active

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NHLBI

  3. Proyecto VIDA (VIH Información Distribución y Acción): A Longitudinal Study of HIV Incidence and Engagement in HIV Prevention and Care Among MSM in Colombia

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK via NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID

  4. Optimizing HIV prevention – Supplement

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK via NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID

  5. Optimizing HIV prevention for highly vulnerable methamphetamine-using sexual minority men

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK via NATL INST OF HLTH NIAID

  6. The Impact of Alcohol on PrEP Adherence in Vulnerable Men

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIAAA

Education

  1. Doctor of Philosophy , Epidemiology

    University of California, Los Angeles

  2. Master of Science in Public Health, Epidemiology

    University of South Carolina

  3. Bachelor of Science, Public Health Sciences

    Clemson University

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 294-5945
Emails:
Business:
westmorelanddrew@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 1001231
 GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Business Street:
2004 MOWRY RD
 GAINESVILLE FL 32611