Since Uswa Jafary was young, she had always dreamed of a world where environmental and animal welfare thrived as one. Little did she know, she would be chasing those same aspirations today, but in a different way than she imagined. The 27-year-old student grew up in the Kashmir region in…
From Thailand to the United States, May Thongthum is determined to leave a positive impact on the public health field. The third-year student is on track to earn her PhD in public health with a concentration in One Health from the Department of Environmental and Global Health at the University…
Moving across the world to pursue his dreams, Ibsa Ahmed has paved the way for success and broader change in Ethiopia’s rural regions. Hailing from Dire Dawa in Eastern Ethiopia, Ahmed first took interest in public health after feeling a strong pull toward work that creates a positive change on…
Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood graciously led our University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health for the past decade, driving a positive change in our programs, faculty, staff and student body. Her fearless leadership led to incredible feats within the department, including doubling the size of its faculty, increasing research…
From earning his Ph.D. and master’s degree at the University of Florida to returning as the new director of the One Health Center of Excellence, Michael von Fricken is a Gator through and through.
On behalf of the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health, we would like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood for serving as our department chair for the past 10 years.
by: Jenny Rogers Guided by her unwavering empathy, Dr. Jennifer Applebaum‘s journey in animal welfare and sociology is marked by a profound commitment to both human and animal well-being. As she approaches her second year as an assistant professor with the University of Florida Department of Environmental and…
As the heart and soul of the University of Florida’s Department of Environmental and Global Health, Victoria Houghton thrives on forming connections. Houghton brings years of experience from the UF Student Financial Affairs office, which taught her valuable skills in handling academics, financial aid and student assistance. “I have…
by: Jenny Rogers Meredith Hoyt, the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health department administrator, has been a cornerstone to the EGH team since her first day in May 2018. As the department administrator, Meredith Hoyt has been a core part of the team for…
NBC Nightly News turned to mosquito-borne disease expert and EGH associate professor Dr. Michael von Fricken May 28 for his expertise on the issues
by: Jenny Rogers Dr. Nicole Dennis is our newest addition to the University of Florida Environmental and Global Health department, joining the team as a research assistant professor. With a focus on environmental toxicology and a biological and analytical chemistry background, Dennis is putting her best foot…
by: Jenny Rogers At the Department of Environmental and Global Health, our administrative and staff support are the backbone of ensuring our operations run smoothly. Gainesville-native Erin Ferguson has been with the department for the past seven months and has already made her impact. Prior to coming to the…
by: Jenny Rogers Army captain, environmental scientist and University of Florida student Andrew Satterlee is a jack of all trades. The 37-year-old has been enrolled in the Master of Public Health in Environmental Health program within the UF Department of Environmental and Global Health at the College of Public Health…
by: Jenny Rogers Even from miles away, Meredith Zahara is unwavering in her pursuit of knowledge. After earning her bachelor’s degree in animal biology from Grand State Valley University, the Michigan native has worked at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as a research associate since 2005. Now,…
by: Jenny Rogers With a heart of ambition and toolbelt of knowledge, Samantha Andristch is one step closer to her dreams at the University of Florida. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in public health from the College of Charleston, Andritsch headed south to pursue a…
The UF Environmental and Global Health Department spent an exciting Friday at Lake Wauburg participating in a series of team building activities and games! EGH staff, faculty and students came together to complete challenges that rely on team building, communication skills and words of encouragement! Thank you to RecSports…
One Health PhD Student Melissa Dulcey has been selected to attend the CEEZAD BSL-3 Training/Transboundary Animal Diseases Summer Program. This program provides high containment training at the Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University, site visits to area animal health industries, and lectures from invited national and international experts on…
Natasha Weatherspoon-Griffin, an EGH postdoctoral researcher, was awarded a travel grant to attend the Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology in Estes Park, CO in June 2017. A key feature of this historic conference is to maximize participation of early career scientists and facilitate interactions with established investigators. This international…
by: Jenny Rogers In celebration of International Education Week from November 13-17, the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health turns the spotlight on two of its most notable international students. 33-year-old Soung Iballa Francklin Brice from Cameroon, Africa, made the decision to pursue his Ph.D. in One…
by: Jenny Rogers Dr. Eric Nelson is committed to the pursuit of accessible health care around the clock. The University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health and Department of Pediatrics associate professor has been with UF since 2016. Apart from his time at the UF College of Public…
Dr. Benjamin Anderson received his Master of Public Health (MPH) in 2012, and later his PhD in Public Health, One Health concentration in 2015, from the University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health. After graduating with his PhD from UF, Dr. Anderson joined Duke University as a Postdoctoral…
Dr. John Lednicky published a paper in the Journal of Aerosol Science titled “Viable SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant detected in aerosols in a residential setting with a self-isolating college student with COVID-19.” Click the link below to read more. https://lnkd.in/e99eBCjR…
Dr. John Lednicky published a paper in the Journal of Aerosol Science titled “Viable SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant detected in aerosols in a residential setting with a self-isolating college student with COVID-19.” Click below to read the article. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021850222000775?via%3Dihub…
PhD 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…
Check out the video from USA today below capturing the 2022 Willoughby Team expedition. https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2022/11/04/team-studies-human-impacts-florida-everglades/8267842001/…
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…
Dr. Joe Bisesi was interviewed on TV20 WCJB last week for his research in COVID-19 wastewater tracking. View the newscast here: “Can tracking COVID-19 in wastewater help slow the spread?”…
EGH students and research scientists received awards from the Annual Meeting of Southeastern Society of Toxicology in November 2021. Congratulations to Nima Madani for receiving a Graduate Student Presentation Award, and to Drs. Qiran Chen, Wei-Chun Chou, and Long Yuan for receiving Post-doctoral Fellow Poster Awards! …
See linked for Dr. Tracie Baker’s two manuscripts that went online last month: “Persistent contaminants of emerging concern in a great lakes urban-dominant watershed” in the Journal of Great Lakes Research “Phenotypic and transcriptomic effects of developmental exposure to nanomolar levels of…
In a list created by scientists from Stanford University, Dr. Anthony Maurelli is named in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List based on career-long impact. Dr. John Lednicky and Dr. Zhoumeng Lin are named in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List based on single-year impact in 2020.
Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Stephenson (Ph.D. in Public Health One Health alumna) and Melissa Dulcey (Ph.D. in Public Health One Health candidate) for their selection in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship program!…
Dr. John Lednicky’s research on COVID-19 aerosol transmission was featured in The Print article, “Coronavirus likelier in air we breathe than surfaces touched — what scientists say we got wrong”…
Click here to view Dr. John Lednicky’s publication in Nature, “Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children.”…
Click the link here to view Dr. Eric Coker’s newest publication, “Vitamin D intake modifies the association of household air pollution exposure with maternal disorders of pregnancy.”…
Nov. 17, 2021: University of Florida researchers have detected the first known instance of people becoming infected with a type of coronavirus that was previously thought to only infect pigs. Click here to view a new story from EPI, “Coronavirus ‘spillovers’ more frequent than thought,” featuring Dr. John Lednicky and his…
Congratulations to Dr. Liz Wood (pictured right) who has been selected as the 2021 UF International Educator of the Year in the junior faculty category! Dr. Wood was honored for her award at the Powell University House for the UF International Center – UFIC‘s 30th Anniversary, as well as…
Caroline Stephenson, a Ph.D. in Public Health (One Health) alumna, published “Geographic Partitioning of Dengue Virus Transmission Risk in Florida” Click the link provided to read.
Dr. Eric Coker was featured in UFIC’s Office for Global Research Development’s International Research Spotlight! Click here to read. Dr. Coker recently completed a Global Health Fellowship where he conducted a study in Kampala, Uganda examining the relationship between air pollution and respiratory symptoms in children.
View Dr. Lednicky’s new publication on “Isolation of a Novel Recombinant Canine Coronavirus from a Visitor to Haiti: Further Evidence of Transmission of Coronaviruses of Zoonotic Origin to Humans” in Clinical Infectious Diseases. …
See the link here for “The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel,” a major effort of the Sahel Research Group at UF. Dr. Sarah McKune is section editor of “Section III: The Environment and the Challenge of Climate Change”…
See here for a paper from one of our PhD in Public Health (Environmental Health) alumni, Keerati Ponpetch, titled “Environmental Drivers and Potential Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni Endemic Areas in Ethiopia.”…
Dr. Zhoumeng Lin and his lab are building an AI-powered tool that can offer drug researchers insight into how well a new nanoparticle-based cancer therapy will work. View the story on PHHP here.
See below for the link to Dr. Zhoumeng Lin Lab’s newest publication, “Development and Application of an Interactive Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (iPBPK) Model to Predict Oxytetracycline Tissue Distribution and Withdrawal Intervals in Market-Age Sheep and Goats,” with lead author Dr. Md Mahbubul Huq Riad, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the…
