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HOP Pre-doctoral Candidate Presents at APHA Meeting

Martin Wegman, a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, was one of three student finalists invited to give an oral presentation at the 2016 Applied Public Health Statistics Section (APHS) Student Competition. The APHS is part of…

New Biomedical Informatics Ph.D. Approved

The Department of Health Outcomes & Policy’s Ph.D. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics was approved by the UF Graduate School on September 15.  …

HOP Researcher Calls for Increased Research on Waterpipe in AJPH Commentary

Pointing to an alarming rise in the number of U.S. youths who use a waterpipe, or hookah, to smoke tobacco, Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., and two Florida-based public health researchers, are calling for more research to support recent government efforts to regulate the tobacco use method. Salloum, assistant professor…