At an event commemorating the first anniversary of the Greenhouse at Wilmot Garden on March 18, Dr. Craig Tisher took the podium next to a table of certificates for greenhouse volunteers and reflected on the therapeutic horticulture program’s four-year history. The Greenhouse at Wilmot Gardens seemed a distant reality in…
A collaborative research team of individuals from the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health will present their recent research results on underage alcohol use at the Society for Prevention Research 23rd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 26-29. The research team, comprised of Kelli…
Keith E. Muller, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, has been invited to join the Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee of the National Cancer Institute as a statistical representative. The steering committee aims to identify and promote the best science in cancer care delivery…
François Modave, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, and Jiang Bian, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, discussed UF’s informatics research at the Data Science and Informatics Student Organization’s symposium on April 14. To help expose undergraduate students to…
Chris Delcher, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, has been inducted into the Beta Upsilon Chapter of Delta Omega, the honorary society of public health. “Dr. Delcher has shown a long-term commitment to public health from his work in the Virginia Department of Health…
Recent HOP graduate Steve Newell Ph.D., has accepted a fellowship with the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be speaking at SPSSI’s new conference, A Road Less Traveled: Forging Links between Psychological Science and…
Anthony Biglan’s new book The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives & Our World features an endorsement from Kelli Komro, Ph.D., MPH, professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy. Biglan is a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute and a leader in…
Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, was selected to receive a University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship, which recognizes faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship. Shenkman was specifically commended for her key role in the university’s research enterprise…
Sarah Lynne-Landsman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, and Alexander Wagenaar, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Adolescent Drug Use Prevention, a compendium of theory, research, and methods related to adolescent drug…
The Multidisciplinary Academic-Community Obesity Disparities Research (MACOD-R) Partnership, an initiative of the UF Health Disparities Research and Intervention Program, presents the Obesity Disparities Research and Intervention Seminar Series, featuring: Ayodola Anise, MHS Program Officer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute “PCORI’s Role in Addressing Disparities through Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research”…
