Announcements

Keith Muller, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, and his co-investigator Deborah H. Glueck, Ph.D., associate professor of...

Simone French (left), Ph.D., professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and director of the University of Minnesota Obesity Prevention Center, and Nancy E. Sherwood (right), Ph.D., director of scientific development and senior research investigator at HealthPartners…

Megan McVay, Ph.D., assistant professor, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science...

The biomedical informatics certificate, a 15-credit, on-campus program, was approved by the University of Florida Graduate School on Nov. 20. The interdisciplinary program brings in courses from across the University of Florida campus to familiarize students with the foundational concepts they need for the growing field of biomedical informatics. The…

The University of Florida’s Department of Pediatrics, Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, Institute for Child Health Policy, and Family Data Center recently reviewed applications for the creation of three workgroups focused on intervention studies and health outcomes in pediatric research. Research proposals receive funding of up to $10,000 to…

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…

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...

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…

Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida, appeared on WCJB TV-20, a north-central Florida ABC affiliate that broadcasts throughout Gainesville, Lake City and Ocala, to discuss the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium. On WCJB TV-20, Shenkman, who is the principal…

Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Ph.D., associate professor, and Chris Delcher, Ph.D., adjunct research assistant professor, had a tough decision on their hands after interviewing applicants for a single undergraduate mentored research position within the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy. Applications from qualified candidates poured in after they announced the position through…