Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, will speak on the Wellness Incentives and Navigation (WIN) Project at HealthStreet’s upcoming Our Community, Our Health event on Thursday, July 31. Our Community, Our Health is a forum for conversation between health researchers and the…
A Department of Health Outcomes and Policy research team, led by Kelli Komro, Ph.D., received a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health to explore patterns, risk factors and consequences of alcohol use among female Native American teenagers. This grant complements the team’s…
While scientists and clinicians work each day on discoveries that could unlock treatments and cures for diseases, [...]
Many people delay and even skip visits to the dentist due to anxiety and fear. Now University of Florida researchers have discovered [...]
The Florida Department of Health has awarded $1.6 million to the University of Florida to help establish a statewide network [...]
The Florida Department of Health has awarded $1.6 million to the University of Florida to help establish a statewide network that will quickly bring the benefits of research in labs and other clinical settings to more than 9 million patients in all of Florida’s 67 counties.
Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of health outcomes and policy and a faculty member with the Institute for Child Health Policy, was elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society for Prevention Research on Thursday, May 29 at an awards presentation…
Dr. Alexander Wagenaar served as a co-author of a new marijuana policy paper that was featured in a news release by the RAND Corporation. The paper, published by the American Journal of Public Health, discusses how strategies used to control alcohol and tobacco may also serve to regulate marijuana.
