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…
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…
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 Four years into his Ph.D. program, University of Florida Department of Environmental and Global Health student Daniel Acosta has never felt more sure of his role in the public health field. The 32-year-old student from Barranquilla, Colombia, moved to the United States in 2017…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
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.”…
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…
June 24, 2021: UF’s EPI is partnering with Gainesville-based tech company SurfPlasma, Inc. to test a new device’s ability to kill pathogens — even the celestial kinds. Read more from UF EPI’s story here.
“Genome Sequence of a Yunnan Orbivirus Isolated from a Dead Florida White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)” a paper from the Lednicky Lab was published in the American Society for Microbiology’s Microbiology Resource Announcements.
Karen Coker, Ph.D. in Public Health (One Health) student, and Tyler Nesbit, a Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences Ph.D. student, have been selected for funding through the CTSI TL1 predoctoral training program. Andrew Rainey, another Ph.D. in Public Health (One Health) student, and Lisa Emerson, a Department of Microbiology…
Helena Chapman serves as Associate Program Manager for Health and Air Quality Applications in the Applied Sciences Program (Booz Allen Hamilton) of the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters. In this focus area, her team promotes the use of Earth observation data in public health applications, related to air quality…
Dr. Chris Martyniuk, an associate professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of physiological sciences, and Dr. Joseph Bisesi, an assistant professor in the UF College of Health and Health Professions’ department of environmental and global health, are collaborating in a new project sponsored by the National Institutes of…
The current vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 has many challenging aspects, one of which is maintaining the cold chain for the distribution, delivery, and storage of available vaccines and guaranteeing that their full titre is retained for administration. Although outstanding technology for vaccine development has enabled products to be put on…
“The phone call came in late one night last year. On the outskirts of Gressier, Haiti, two children were ill. The nurses for MotoMeds, a pediatric call center and mobile medicine delivery service run as a University of Florida research initiative, asked crucial questions about the children’s symptoms. The principal…
“Analysis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Estuarine Sediments by Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation Coupled to Near-Infrared Fluorescence Spectroscopy Reveals Disassociation of Residual Metal Catalyst Nanoparticles” Abstract The continued growth of the nanotechnology industry and the incorporation of nanomaterials into consumer applications will inevitably lead to their release into environmental systems.
The College of Public Health and Health Professions has selected Dr. Sarah White, an alumna of our PhD in Public Health One Health program, as a 2020 Outstanding Alumni. Read more about her background here.
Andres Manrique to intern with CDC for Emerging Infectious Disease RISE Fellowship MHS in One Health student, Mr. Andres Manrique was awarded the James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases RISE Fellowship. This fellowship offers students the opportunity to gain valuable public health skills in applied research through collaborations…
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…
Assistant Professor Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology College of Veterinary Medicine Gainesville, FL 32610 tbwaltzek@ufl.edu CV Education PhD, Comparative Pathology, University of California, Davis, 2010 DVM, University of California, Davis, 2009 MS, Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2002 BS, Biological Science, Florida State University, 1998…
What is “One Health?” “One Health is an approach that recognizes that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment. One Health is not new, but it has become more important in recent years. This is because many factors have changed interactions…
The PhD in Public Health, One Health concentration will require a minimum of 90 post-baccalaureate credit hours. The One Health concentration is a research-oriented health degree that emphasizes working across public health, veterinary health, and environmental health disciplines to tackle difficult health problems. This program is designed to bridge the…
Application Requirements The following criteria must be met to be considered for admission to the MPH program: Bachelor’s or equivalent degree At least a 3.0 GPA for the last 60 hours of undergraduate coursework. Graduate Record Exam (GRE) with a minimum score of 300 English proficiency examination ** English Proficiency **…
The PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Environmental Health is offered by the Department of Environmental and Global Health in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida. The Environmental Health Concentration prepares students for the rigors of independent scientific investigation and leadership roles in the…
Current PHD Students Environmental HealthStart DateAdvisorSakib, Sk NazmusFall 2019AliManrique, AndresFall 2018Sabo-AttwoodO’Connor, AmberFall 2020Sabo-AttwoodPunch, BiancaFall 2021LiangWu, XueFall 2022LinPei-Yu WuFall 2022LinDonaldson, JessicaFall 2022BisesiParo, Fevi RoseFall 2022LiangConnell, MackenzieFall 2022BakerDavour, RoselynFall 2023Colon-BurgosZhang, ZhichengFall 2023LinChen, XinyueFall 2024LinCheramy, JeantelFall 2024BisesiSriguha, IshaeFall…
