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HOP Researcher Works with CDC to Evaluate Haiti’s HIV/AIDS Programs

HOP researcher Chris Delcher, Ph.D., is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to help the Haitian government and other nations hardest hit by HIV/AIDS to evaluate and fine-tune their prevention and treatment programs. In 2016 Delcher received funding…

HOP Faculty to Serve on ADA’s National Health Disparities Committee

Ashby Walker, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and the Institute for Child Health Policy, was nominated to serve a two-year term on the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) National Health Disparities Committee beginning in 2017. The committee, comprised of 14 leading health equity and…

HOP Pre-doctoral Candidate Publishes Study in The Lancet Global Health

Martin Wegman, an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awardee and M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, is lead author of the first study to demonstrate that compulsory drug detention centers (CDDCs)—widely used in Asia and Southeast Asia—are ineffective in treating opioid addiction. The article appeared in…