Health Outcomes And Implementation Science

At last year’s event, HOBI postdoctoral associate Rola Zeidan, Ph.D., won a community health award for the research poster “Iron levels in Postmenopausal Women.”

At-home kits that allow women to collect their own samples for HPV testing have been shown to improve cervical cancer screening rates. But some women lack confidence in their ability to complete the collection themselves.

Three instructors from the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics were honored by the College of Medicine with a 2025 Exemplary Teacher Award. They are: Professor Carla Fisher, Ph.D., M.S.W. Associate Professor Megan Gregory Ph.D. Assistant Professor…

While dementia and cancer caregivers need the same communication skill support, spouses also identified four communication skills that are distinctly important in dementia care to achieve emotionally centered care goals.

Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., associate director for community outreach and engagement at the UF Health Cancer Institute, has been elected vice chair of the Florida Cancer Control and Research Advisory Council.

Naomi Parker, Ph.D., an assistant scientist in the University of Florida’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, never expected her path from rural Southeast Georgia to lead to cancer communication research.

Students and faculty members in the Division of Implementation Science and Health Interventions will feature prominently in the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.

Professor Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., has been appointed as the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI). In this new role, he will focus on supporting faculty and trainees around strategic funding opportunities for research.

Working with oncologists, Carma Bylund, Ph.D., and study first author Naomi Parker, Ph.D., both from the UF Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, are piloting an “information prescription” to steer patients to sources of evidence-based information like the American Cancer Society.

“Our goal is to understand how we can meet the real-world needs of cancer survivors and caregivers, with a focus on quality of life,” said Kathryn Pluta, Ph.D.