Alana Christou, academic program coordinator for the department of health outcomes and policy, and Gina Eubanks, a current Ph.D. student and research coordinator in the department, successfully completed a two-day recruiting effort at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting in San Diego, Calif., from June 8-10. “I think it was a great…
Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of health outcomes and policy and a faculty member with the Institute for Child Health Policy, was elected to serve on the board of directors of the Society for Prevention Research on Thursday, May 29 at an awards presentation…
Martin Wegman, an NIH TL1 Predoctoral Fellow and an M.D. /Ph.D. student at the University of Florida, has been invited to present his paper, “Flexible Wellness Account Purchase Requests by Medicaid Enrollees with Co-Occurring Physical and Mental Illness,” during the Chair’s Forum at the 142nd American Public Health…
A research scientist with the Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, Kimberly Case, Ph.D., presented a seminar entitled “Innovative Study Designs and Methods for Behavioral Interventions to Improve Health” at the Dental Science Building on Thursday, April 24. The seminar covered several new techniques for designing studies that are not…
Deina Bossa is a recipient of the 2014 UF Center for Undergraduate Research Best Paper Award for “Explaining State Variation in Medicaid Expenditures.” Her research analyzes the program, economic, demographic, and political factors that lead to variations in Medicaid expenditures between states. Papers are selected for the award through a…
Drs. Tobler, Maldonado-Molina, Staras, Livingston, and Komro’s article entitled “Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination, problem behaviors, and mental health among minority urban youth” has been listed in the top 25 most read ethnicity and race articles of 2013 by Taylor & Francis Online.
Melissa Bright’s research, which centers on stressful experiences and their immediate effects on children’s health, has been featured on MSN Healthy Living. Dr. Bright recently presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) in San Francisco. Huffington Post • June 3, 2014 U.S.
Dr. Komro and her colleagues at the UF Institute for Child Health Policy and Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health published an article entitled “Prevention Trial in the Cherokee Nation: Design of a Randomized Community Trial” in the March 2014 issue of Prevention Science. The paper centers on the continuing struggle with…
HOP student research assistant Deina Bossa has been selected to present her research, “Explaining State Variation in Medicaid Expenditures,” at both the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC)! Deina’s abstract was selected from more than 4,000 submissions to NCUR. Her research…
Dr. Jill Herndon is co-presenting a webinar entitled “Advancing Quality and Program Effectiveness through Performance Measures” on November 13, 2013. The webinar is hosted by the Medicaid-CHIP State Dental Association and sponsored by the Dental Quality Alliance. For more information, please visit http://www.medicaiddental.org/calendar_day.asp?date=11/13/2013&event=57.
