Department Of Environmental And Global Health

Dr. Richard Rheingans identifies ways to get vaccines to people most in need.

Dr. Richard Rheingans has been named the University of Florida 2012 International Educator of the Year in the junior faculty category.

A team led by Dr. Gregory Gray found that up to 20 percent of healthy-looking show pigs at a 2009 U.S. state fair were infected with swine flu.

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.

Catch up on the department of environmental and global health's education, research and service news in the latest issue of their newsletter.

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.

From Africa to Bangladesh and Cambodia to Haiti, research faculty in the department of environmental and global health are conducting projects all over the world. Read more about their work in the department's summer newsletter.

A new technique honed by University of Florida scientists can track rapid molecular changes that occur in cholera strains during epidemics and researchers hope the genetic analysis will help stamp out such outbreaks.

In memoriam Natalie Freeman, Ph.D. In November the college lost a valued researcher, passionate child health advocate and dear friend. Natalie Freeman, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of environmental and global health, passed away following a long illness. Dr. Freeman established the college’s environmental health program in…

Dean’s message Dr. Michael G. Perri, dean A cholera outbreak in Haiti caused by a strain that resembles a South Asian strain of the disease and last year’s international swine flu pandemic, thought to have originated in a Mexico swine herd, are…