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 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 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…
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…
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)…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood delivered a keynote talk titled “Don’t Let Your Defenses Down: A Role for Environmental Chemicals in Infectious Disease Susceptibility” at the Society of Toxicology and Chemistry Africa 10th Biennial Conference on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021. Click the link above to read more about Dr. Sabo-Attwood’s biography and a…
The College of Public Health and Health Professions has recognized one of our EGH alumni, Steven Peterson, MPH Environmental Health Concentration, with a 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award. Mr. Peterson, among thirteen other award winners, will be recognized at a virtual celebration on September 24th. Read more about Mr. Peterson and other…
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.
Dr. Afsar Ali was interviewed for CBS Tampa Bay’s story “Bacteria lurking in Florida water responsible for hundreds of cases,” which won a FL Association of Broadcast Journalists Award in May 2021!…
See Dr. Eric Coker’s publication, “A land use regression model using machine learning and locally developed low-cost particulate matter sensors in Uganda” in the Environmental Research Journal.
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…
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…
Published Feb. 11 Around this time last year, a group of researchers at the University of Florida began their annual search for flu samples. For 19 days, professor John Lednicky and his laboratory took swab samples from a door handle at a busy campus building, and on four of those days…
“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…
“Nano-scale Applications in Aquaculture: Opportunities for Improved Production and Disease Control” Abstract Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food-production sector and is vital to food security, habitat restoration and endangered species conservation. One of the continued challenges to the industry is our ability to manage aquatic disease agents that can rapidly…
See Dr. Lednicky’s recent publication in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, “Coronavirus 2019 Infectious Disease Epidemic: Where We Are, What Can Be Done and Hope For”…
See below for a press release on a paper written collaboratively between groups at UF (Dr. Eric Nelson included), Utah, Gates, UVA, Brown U, Mali, and Bangladesh. “Decision-support tool could reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for child diarrhoea.”…
Dr. Yoho and Dr. Wood facilitated a roundtable discussion at the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting in January focused on “Reimagining Diversity and Inclusion in Public Health and the Health Professions.” The abstract for the roundtable is available in the conference program: https://www.eventscribe.com/upload/planner/PDFs/aacu-am21-final-program_68.pdf…
“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.
See Dr. Eric Coker’s new publication “‘Freedom to Breathe’: Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Investigate Air Pollution Inequities in Richmond, CA” in the International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health at the link here.
“Coronavirus Infectious Disease Epidemic (COVID-19): where we are, what can be done and hope for,” a paper co-authored by Dr. Lednicky, has been published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. Click here to read.
