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HOP Presents Joint Seminar on Preventing Obesity in Low-Income Preschool-Aged Children

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…

Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate Approved

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…

Three Pediatric Workgroup Projects Funded

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…

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…

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…