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.
Chris Delcher’s article entitled “Trends in Financial Barriers to Medical Care for Women Veterans, 2003-2004 and 2009-2010” has been published in Preventing Chronic Diseases, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal. Mr. Delcher is a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Mildred Maldonado-Molina,…
Zheng Li has been selected to receive an International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) Top Poster Award in the Category of Aging and Dementia for her study entitled “The relationships among health status, service coordination, and patient reported outcomes in Medicaid long-term care program.” Dr. I-Chan Huang provided…
Dr. Melanie Hinojosa has been selected to give an oral presentation at the 141st APHA Annual Meeting. The title of her talk is “Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Use of Home and Community Based Services…
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Wagenaar on the recent publication of “Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods,” a book that explores the mechanisms, theories, and models central to public health law research—a growing field dedicated to measuring and studying law as a central means for advancing public health. “Public Health…
Dr. Yi Guo’s tutorial “Selecting a sample size for studies with repeated measures” has been labeled “Highly Accessed” and listed under “Most Viewed” on the BMC Medical Research Methodology website. In this tutorial, Dr. Guo describes methods for gathering the information required for selecting a sample size for studies…
