Department Of Biostatistics

Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues also project handfuls of cases popping up from Texas to South Carolina and even Oklahoma. Photo: James Gathany/CDC

A study by Dr. Yang Yang and colleagues found that the United Nations’ actions in Sierra Leone led to a dramatic drop in the transmission of the disease. UN Photo/Martine Perret

Dr. Ira Longini and colleagues discuss the trial that combined an experimental vaccine with an innovative method of vaccinating people, resulting in an estimated 100 percent efficacy of the vaccine against the Ebola virus. Photo: WHO/S. Hawkey

Whether you call it blended learning, hybrid learning or the flipped classroom, new models of learning that mix distance, hands-on and small-group learning are becoming increasingly popular. PHHP is no exception.

Jay Nair and Jingnan Zhang received the center's Outstanding International Student Awards.

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.

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.

Dr. Meenakshi Devidas has been named group statistician of the Children’s Oncology Group and principal investigator of an NCI grant with a planned budget of $39 million.

The University of Florida has named leading statistics researcher Peihua Qiu, Ph.D., the founding chair of its department of biostatistics.