Ph.D. Evironmental and Global Health student, Daniel Acosta, was co-author on a paper published by the OECD (online library of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) titled, “West Africa and the global climate agenda.” Click the link below to read more. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/west-africa-and-the-global-climate-agenda_e006df00-en…
Dr. Sarah McKune was the co-PI on published research in the BMJ Journals for the CAGED project from her time in Ethiopia titled “Unravelling the reservoirs for colonisation of infants with Campylobacter spp. in rural Ethiopia: protocol for a longitudinal study during a global pandemic and political tensions.” Click below to…
M.P.H. alumna Kaitlyn Sutton is an environmental administrator with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection working to protect human health and aquatic life.
Two of the University of Florida’s Environmental and Global Health faculty, associate professor Zhoumeng Lin, PhD, and research assistant Professor Wei-Chun Chou, PhD., are hard at work developing computer modeling technologies using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). They use these approaches to address research questions about the safe…
See the link below for a new manuscript from the Baker lab: Developmental Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Effects of Exposure to Nanomolar Levels of 4-Nonylphenol, Triclosan, and Triclocarban in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)…
View the NDEWS News Weekly Briefing to view the latest Gator WATCH™ (Wastewater Analysis for Tracking Community Health) project: “Monitoring community health through wastewater analysis: Gator WATCH™ partnership with the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS).”…
The UF College of Public Health and Health Professions held its 35th annual Research Day on February 10. Congratulations to Amber O’Connor and Andrew Rainey for tying in first place in the Public Health category! View other awardees here.
A new study from the UF GatorWATCH team and Cedar Key FL colleagues is the first published that uses municipal wastewater surveillance to examine the effect of tourists and visitors on SARS-CoV-2 and variant introductions on a small community popular with tourists. Read more here.
See the link here for Dr. Caroline Stephenson’s paper, “Imported Dengue Case Numbers and Local Climatic Patterns Are Associated with Dengue Virus Transmission in Florida, USA” featuring Drs. Eric Coker, Song Liang, and John Lednicky as co-authors.
A single exposure to an environmental contaminant during development may be all it takes to affect fertility in adulthood and later generations. With the support of a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, University of Florida researchers hope…
