Assistant Research Scientist Receives Grant from AcademyHealth to Examine Health Care Quality for Foster Youth
Melissa Bright, Ph.D., assistant research scientist in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, was...
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UF Scientists Collaborate on Web Tool That Calculates Impacts of Alcohol Taxes
Research shows that increasing alcohol taxes decreases excessive alcohol consumption and related harms. Now, that decrease can be modeled with an interactive tool developed by a team of researchers across the country, including Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., professor of health outcomes and policy; Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., MSPH, assistant professor of health…
Health Policy Expert Featured in National Policy Magazine on Marijuana Legalization
Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., professor of health outcomes and policy, was quoted in a recent article, entitled "What if States Just Sold Marijuana Themselves?" in Governing magazine...
Biomedical Informatics Expert Publishes Editorial on the Future of Big Data
Bill Hogan, M.D., M.S., professor of health outcomes and policy and director of biomedical informatics at the UF CTSI, had an editorial published in the November issue of For the Record, a national print magazine dedicated to the medical coding, HIT, and eHealth industries. In the editorial, Hogan examines the…
Delcher Appears on TV-20 to Discuss Prescription Pain Reliever Mortality and Policy
Chris Delcher, Ph.D., adjunct professor of health outcomes and policy, appeared on WCJB TV-20’s Medical Spotlight to discuss prescription pain reliever mortality trends in Florida as well as the importance of conducting research on the impact of new health policies. Watch his video here.
Dr. Alexander Wagenaar Co-Author of Paper Featured in Press Release by the RAND Corporation!
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.