Spotlight on environmental health Ph.D. students
In honor of International Education Week, the department of environmental and global health spotlights two of its international Ph.D. students.
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Kayan Clarke & Andres Manrique, PhD in Public Health Environmental Health Candidates published in the International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health
Kayan Clarke and Andres Manrique, both current PhD in Public Health (Environmental Health) candidates in the Department of Environmental & Global Health published “A Narrative Review of Occupational Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Farmworkers“ alongside EGH faculty, Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood and Dr. Eric Coker, in…
EGH Researchers Find Diarrhoeal Infections May Have Long-Lasting Effects
Mirna Amaya, One Health Ph.D. student, Lindsey Laytner, a recent EGH graduate, and Karoun Bagamian, EGH affiliate faculty, contributed to a recently published article concerning the cause of moderate to severe diarrhoea in children under five. The article titled, “Burden of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and shigella non-fatal diarrheal infections in…
UF Researchers Solve Chlamydia Mystery; Reveal Possible New Drug Target
The research team, led by Dr. Anthony Maurelli, of the Department of Environmental and Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, that resolved the 60-year-old Chlamydia anomaly has solved another long-standing mystery of this important bacterial pathogen. Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of bacteria sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United…
EGH Celebrates National Environmental Health Day 2018
Wednesday, April 4th, the Department of Environmental and Global Health celebrated Environmental Health Day. This day is recognized nation-wide as part of National Public Health Week. Students in the department collaborated with Public Health Student Association (PHSA) to organize a tabling event in the college’s courtyard. Students could…
Dr. Liz Wood publishes article in Food and Nutrition Research
Dr. Liz Wood, PhD, recently published an article titled “Household decision-making around food in rural Tajikistan: a cross-sectional study to help extension workers in the field” in Food & Nutrition Research. Dr. Wood co-wrote the article with Katharine McNamara, a PhD student in the Department of Environmental and Global Health,…
Dr. Sarah McKune published in the Journal of Health Communication
Dr. Sarah McKune recently published “The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia” in the Journal of Health Communication.As part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from UF, Rutgers University, and the World Health Organization, Dr. Sarah McKune analyzed findings from…
Dr. John Lednicky participates in a Mitre Corporation sponsored workshop in Washington, DC
Dr. John Lednicky and 4 other world renowned virologists were invited to give ‘state-of-the-science’ presentations at a workshop in Washington, DC that was hosted by the Mitre Corporation. The Mitre Corporation is an American not-for-profit organization that manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers supporting several U.S. government agencies. Titled…
Xiaohui Xu
Dr. Xu’s primary research investigates the health effects of environmental exposures on chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. He has used a combination of methods of classical epidemiological methodology, ArcGIS techniques and advance statistical modeling to investigate the health effects of environmental exposures, particularly focusing on air pollution…
Gregory Gray
Dr. Gray’s current research interest include emerging infectious diseases, zoonotic infections, clinical trials, rapid diagostics, epidemiology of respiratory infections, adenovirus infections, influenza, human metapneumovirus, group A streptococcal infections, vaccinology, public health among military populations, and tropical infectious diseases.