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Dr. Ashish Deshmukh publishes in Vaccine

Dr. Deshmukh published, “Adjuvant HPV vaccination for anal cancer prevention in HIV-positive men who have sex with men: The time is now,” on August 12, 2017. The article details a study on the value of adoption of adjuvant qHPV vaccine for anal cancer prevention.

MHA student receives MGMA Scholarship

Abby Wolz, class of 2018, is the recipient of the MGMA Leader Scholarship. This is a great honor for Abby and we appreciate her terrific representation of the MHA program.

Dr. Rick Kates inducted as Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow

Rick Kates, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, has been inducted as an inaugural Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow. The purpose of the Fellows is to foster and celebrate inter-disciplinary collaboration around creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship at UF.  Dr. Kates proposed project includes formally linking entrepreneurship to students in Public Health and Health Professions,…

Young-Rock Hong publishes in Medical Care

PhD student Young- Rock Hong, MPH, published Up-to-Date on Preventive Care Services Under Affordable Care Act: A Trend Analysis From MEPS 2007–2014 in Medical Care. His coauthors are Department Chair, Arch G. Mainous, III, PhD, and Ara Jo, MS, a fellow PhD student. Read the paper: http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/Abstract/2017/08000/Up_to_Date_on_Preventive_Care_Services_Under.6.aspx  …

MHA student receives AUPHA scholarship

Ciera Hall, MHA Class of 2018, is the recipient of the 2017 Bachrach Family Scholarship from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. Ciera was selected among 49 highly competitive applications. Congratulations Ciera!…

HSRMP well represented at Academy Health

The department had several presentations at this year’s Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. Three PhD students presented their research: pictured, top left, Ivana Vaughn, MPH; top right, Young-Rock Hong, MPH; bottom right: Ara Jo, MS. Nicole Marlow, MPH, PhD (pictured bottom left with Young-Rock Hong) attended as the department’s faculty…

MHA Class of 2016 graduate serves as panelist at AUPHA

Savannah Humphreys, MHA, is a class of 2016 MHA graduate and is now an administrative fellow at Kaiser Permanente. Savannah served on a practitioner panel at the AUPHA 2017 annual meeting. Savannah’s panel included the Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser, Richard Trogman, FACHE as well as Kelly Colopy, MPP, Director of the Long Beach Health and Human…