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HOP Researcher Works with CDC to Evaluate Haiti’s HIV/AIDS Programs

HOP researcher Chris Delcher, Ph.D., is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to help the Haitian government and other nations hardest hit by HIV/AIDS to evaluate and fine-tune their prevention and treatment programs. In 2016 Delcher received funding…

HOP Faculty Member Presents at National PDMP Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Chris Delcher, Ph.D., gave a presentation on the new web-based Florida Drug-Related Outcomes and Surveillance Tracking System (FROST) at a national prescription drug monitoring program meeting in Washington, D.C., in August. Delcher, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, was invited to present “Development of…

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…