Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Epidemiological, Entomological, and Climatological Investigation of the 2019 Dengue Fever Outbreak in Gewane District, Afar Region, North-East Ethiopia" in the journal Insects. Dengue Fever (DF) is an important…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was appointed to the international council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) for the term 2022-2028. ISID has a mission to is to "support health professionals, non-government organizations, and governments around the world in their work to prevent, investigate, and manage…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Gestational exposure to organophosphate esters and infant anthropometric measures in the first 4 weeks after birth" in the journal Science of the Total Environment.  Few studies have examined whether gestational exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs), widely used…

Jennifer Pharr (EOH), Lung-Chang Chien (EAB), Max Gakh (EOH), Jason Flatt (SBH), Krystal Kittle (SBH), and Emylia Terry (EOH) from the School of Public Health recently published, "Moderating Effect of Community and Individual Resilience on Structural Stigma and Suicidal Ideation among Sexual and Gender Minority Adults in the United…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Childhood urinary organophosphate esters and cognitive abilities in a longitudinal cohort study" in the journal Environmental Research. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between urinary metabolites of three common organophosphate esters (OPEs) measured up…

Ann Vuong's (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) project titled "Early life organophosphate ester (OPE) exposures and adiposity and cardiometabolic health during adolescence" has received over $2 million in grant funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research reported…

Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was appointed by the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to serve as a subject matter expert on the Human Studies Review Board (HSRB), a federal committee that operates in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act to review and comment on proposed and completed research…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article on "Early life organophosphate ester exposures and bone health at age 12 years: The Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study" in the journal Science of The Total Environment.  Despite evidence of osteotoxicity, no human studies have evaluated early life…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored the paper "Maternal urinary organophosphate ester metabolite concentrations and glucose tolerance during pregnancy: The HOME Study" that was published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. In the study, the researchers evaluated the associations between maternal…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-authored a research article titled, "Circulating Carnitine Levels and Breast Cancer: A Matched Retrospective Case-Control Study," in the journal Frontiers in Oncology. Although carnitine may be related to breast cancer development, existing epidemiological studies are scarce, and those that have…

Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), Lung-Chang Chien (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Max Gakh (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Jason Flatt (Social and Behavioral Health) presented on "State protection alignment index as a measure of structural stigma's impact on the mental health of sexual and gender…

Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an extension outreach publication with Estelle Martin and Lucas Brendel from University of Florida's Department of Entomology and Nematology on the human flea (Pulex irritans). This flea often lives in close association with humans and has been implicated as a potentially important…