Dr. Eric Nelson is committed to the pursuit of accessible healthcare around the clock—both day and night. 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 Health…
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.
Jan. 28, 2021: Tucked away in a lengthy review of COVID-19 literature is an intriguing discussion of how jargon affects COVID-19 research, as experts from different fields use common terms but define them differently. In a wide-ranging review paper, a UF virologist and his interdisciplinary colleagues summarize aspects of the…
“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.
Tara Sabo-Attwood, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of environmental and global health, has been named the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ associate dean for faculty development, cultural affairs, and wellness programs. Read the full story here.
UF Environmental & Global Health team led by Drs. Joe Bisesi, Tony Maurelli and Tara Sabo-Attwood developed a COVID-19 wastewater surveillance system for UF’s campus housing. GatorWATCH serves as an early warning system to detect unsuspected infections. See below for the story. https://news.ufl.edu/2020/09/wastewater/?fbclid=IwAR0EmeW4maWaAR0ze4NGDgFRhsS7YJkGwKbc77SB_nMpNhhNiVYH2khqs1Y…
The chair of the Department of Environmental & Global Health, Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood, was appointed as the Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives. This journal, with support from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is a journal of environmental health research and news. To view Environmental Health Perspectives, please…
Dr. Afsar Ali’s paper, “Characterization of the Vibriocidal Activity of Chitosan Microparticles: A Potential Therapeutic Agent for Emerging Multidrug-Resistant Cholera Infections” can be found in the American Society’s Journal: Applied Materials & Interfaces at this link here.
EGH would like to recognize Dr. Ilaria Capua for being awarded the “Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize,” by the Academia Europea-Barcelona Knowledge Hub & the Barcelona City Council. The prize “recognises an outstanding researcher who has conducted her/his career primarily in Europe and at the highest international level, with a strong…
Dr. Tara Sabo-Attwood is featured as one of the UF researchers who received a portion of the record $900.7 million in research awards in the 2020 fiscal year. View the Alligator story below to read more. View story here…
Dr. Lednicky is featured in a WFTV news story regarding COVID-19 and future outbreaks. Read and watch the story here.
August 27, 2020 in Air Resources, Environmental Engineering Sciences, News, Research Highlights GAINESVILLE, Fla. — New research from the University of Florida provides strong evidence that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be possible. A team of UF researchers, led by John Lednicky, Ph.D., and Chang-Yu…
The heavily industrialized and populated regions of Northern Italy, particularly Lombardy, have the highest rates of air pollution in the country. They also have had the country’s highest rates of COVID-19 deaths. A new study led by Eric Coker, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of environmental and global…
UF researchers launch study on small materials that may have a big impact on protecting communities from COVID-19…
Dr. Coker’s article, Household Air Pollution Profiles Associated with Persistent Childhood Cough in Urban Ugana, is now on view at this link. A preview of the background of Dr. Coker’s study: “Most household air pollution (HAP) interventions in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa have focused on a single source,…
On Thursday, January 30th, our very own microbiologist, Dr. John Lednicky, ran his first Reddit Ask Me Anything during the time of the Coronavirus outbreak. By the time the session ended, there were 650 likes and more than 150 comments…making it UF Research’s most active live AMA session to…
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…
Gaby Blohm, a Post-Doctoral Associate, working in the Lednicky Lab at the University of Florida In 2016, during a zika virus disease outbreak in Venezuela, a young girl arrived at a hospital showing signs of a fever, rash, and joint pains. The patient’s plasma was sent to Colombia where…
The Department of Environmental and Global Health faculty and students use and collaborate with several research facilities on the University of Florida campus. This includes: Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology (CEHT) Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) Aquatic Pathobiology Laboratory (APL) Genetics Institute International Center …
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…
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,…
Environmental and Global Health student, Marissa Valentine King, was recognized by the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice for the Students Who Rocked Public Health 2017. This is the second year that students contributions to the Public Health field were recognized by the publication. Valentine King, a PhD…
Several faculty members from the Department of Environmental and Global Health met and spoke with Marky Kessa, Mayor of Jacmel, Haiti during his recent visit to Gainesville. Jacmel is a longtime sister city of Gainesville, and Mayor Kessa was in town to attend the Greater Gainesville International Gala, on Saturday, December 9. Dr.
Maha Elbadry, 2015 EGH PhD graduate and current postdoctoral researcher, recently received Best in Group for Poster Presentations at UF’s Postdoc Research Symposium. The symposium aims to promote the research of UF postdocs as well as provide avenues for professional development. Dr. Elbadry presented her work on submicroscopic malaria infections…
Sarah White, MPH, a fourth year Environmental and Global Health PhD student, recently published a research summary, “Occupational exposure to new influenza virus that infects cows” on the Atlas of Science website. Atlas of Science is an online journal which provides opportunities for scientists to write and publish short…
Wednesday, April 8th, was the College of Public Health and Health Professionals 28th Annual Research Day. Three students of the College of Environmental and Global Health presented posters of their research, two of which made it in the Top 7 Abstracts, one tied for first. Helena…
Cuc Tran successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “Effective Strategies for Evaluating and Sustaining a Successful School-located Influenza Vaccination Program”. Cuc Tran has been awarded a spot in the CDC EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service) training program, which 2-year post-doctoral training program for health professionals interested in the practice of…
Mathematical models predicted it, and now a University of Florida study confirms it: Immunizing school-aged children from flu can protect other segments of the population, as well. When half of 5- to 17-year-old children in Alachua County were vaccinated through a school-based program, the entire age group’s flu rates decreased…
John Lednicky and his colleagues Janet Butel, Maya Luetke, and Julia Loeb published an article entitled “Complete genomic sequence of a new Human polyomavirus 9 strain with an altered noncoding control region” in the journal Virus Genes. (DOI) 10.1007/s11262-014-1119-z. This is the first complete Human polyomavirus 9 (HPyV-9) genome to…
Please help us congratulate Michael von Fricken (on the left) on his successful completion of a PhD with the Department of Environmental and Global Health. Michael’s research has focused on malaria treatment and elimination in Haiti, which has resulted in over 6 publications in this year alone. His work was…
Graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Environmental and Global Health presented posters on a wide range of research topics at the 27th annual PHHP Research Day on April 9, 2014. Sarah K. White, MPH, placed among the top 15 presenters with her poster titled, “Little Evidence of Human…
John Lednicky has posted the complete genomic sequence of Canine distemper virus (CDV) strain 171391-513 and the complete CDS of the large protein gene of CDV strain UF 12-1 in GenBank. CDV is a morbillivirus that affects canids, large cats, and various other carnivores and omnivores, and is thought to…
Dr. Lednicky et al. discovered Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) in commercially sold primary human renal proximal tubule epithelial cells (RPTEC). They then proved the virus replicates in primary RPTEC and human renal epithelial cells. HCoV-NL63 is known as a medium-virulence respiratory virus, but has not been associated with human kidney disease. However, genetically related viruses…
Courtesy Faculty Office: CMAVE, ARS, USDA, Gainesville, FL Phone: 352-374-5910 E-mail: gary.clark@ars.usda.gov CV Education Ph.D., Med/Vet Entomol, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins M.S., Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins B.A., Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Professional Positions Research Leader, Mosquito & Fly Research…
Marissa Valentine recently presented the poster from her thesis project titled “Where’s the Oil? Shortcomings of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Data” at the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Public Health Day. Valentine’s poster was named the Most Public Health Significant poster among all graduating students in…
Surveillance for V. Cholerae from Clinical and Environmental Samples in Haiti – Alex Weppelmann, EGH doctoral candidate, Meer Alam (not pictured), EGH research scholar, and Mohammad Jubair (not pictured), EGH research scholar. Congratulations to Alex who received an Outstanding Poster award! Mother’s Empowerment and Rotavirus Vaccination…
MPH-EH student, Catherine McDermott, recently presented the poster from her thesis project titled “Pathogens as a Mosquito Bio-control Method: Quantifying the Susceptibility of Three Genera of Mosquitoes to Aedes sollicitans Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus (AesoNPV).” McDermott’s poster was named as the Most Innovative MPH Poster among all graduating students in the…
The formula for malaria control in developing countries often seems simple: limit exposure through bed nets, control mosquito vector populations, and provide treatment for infected cases. Yet, implementing solution “A” to address problem “B” can be infinitely complex. How does one decide who gets what? Is the intervention cost-effective? What do…
Courtesy Faculty CV Research Interests infectious disease dynamics, viral host jumps, quantitative ecology, epidemiology of viral encephalitides, epidemiology of viral zoonoses, theory and practice of epidemiology in resource-limited settings Education Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,…
Developed by: Richard Rheingans, PhD John Anderson, MS Camila Pazos, MDP Erica Odera, MDP Click here to view the interactive model. Background and Objectives This research and examines temporal patterns of vaccination disparities in 23 middle- to low-income countries using data from Demographic and…
May 11, 2012 – Orientation May 14, 2012 – Public Health Laboratory Techniques May 16, 2012 – Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology May 19, 2012 – Lectures and Dr. Morris’s barbecue…
