DPHS Newsletter 07/02/2019

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Department of Public Health Sciences

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Dr. Guillermo “Willy” Prado Named President of Society for Prevention Research Guillermo “Willy” Prado, Ph.D., dean of the University of Miami graduate school and professor of public health sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was named the president of the Society for Prevention Research. Dr. Prado, who is also the director of the Division of Prevention Science and Community Health at the Miller School’s Department of Public Health Sciences, began the role on June 1.

A clinic without walls aims to conquer HIV/AIDS News@TheU: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Community-Based HIV Awareness for Minority Populations, or CHAMP, program, is a novel, street-based, rapid-HIV testing initiative that employs community health workers to administer the simple mouth-swab test anywhere—under a tree, in a car, outside a store, at house parties, even on house calls—to the African-American and Haitian populations most at risk in Miami-Dade County of contracting and dying from AIDS-related complications.

Dr. Viviana Horigian Receives a National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant to Launch an Opioid Treatment Program The grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse supported the launch of the Office-Based Addiction Treatment program in two primary care clinics at the University of Miami's medical campus. The program offers medication-assisted treatment to patients with opioid-use disorder, as well as various other resources.

Miller School Researchers Begin Collaboration between the University of Miami and Universidad Catรณlica de Santiago de Guayaquil Researchers from the Department of Public Health Sciences, John Beier, Sc.D., professor of public health sciences, and Andre B. B. Wilke, Ph.D., a post-doctorate associate, recently traveled to Guayaquil, Ecuador to initiate the collaboration. During their visit, they proposed a two-year project that will provide training and technical assistance to understand the biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and implement strategies for the control and prevention of vector-borne diseases in Ecuador.

Dr. JosĂŠ Szapocznik to Present at International Conference on Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Care InventUM: JosĂŠ Szapocznik, Ph.D., professor of public health sciences, architecture, psychology, and educational and psychological studies at the University of Miami, will present next month at the International Conference on Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Care in Vienna, Austria. The conference will bring together hundreds of government, non-governmental organization, and drug abuse professionals from around the world.

RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES Miller School Public Health Professors to Participate in the HEALing Communities Study The study's goal is to implement and evaluate evidence-based practices targeting opioid overdose fatalities and related concerns and to reduce those fatalities by 40 percent in three years.

Dr. Mariano Kanamori Selected as a Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar The Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI), hosted by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, will take place on August 12 to 16, in Bethesda, Md. The goal of the HDRI is to support the career development of promising minority health and health disparities research scientists, as well as to stimulate research in the discipline.

Public Health Experts Working with MedGlobal, Inc. Public health experts organized a series of missions with MedGlobal to provide supplies and medical care to Colombia, where a majority of Venezuelans are migrating to on a daily basis.

STUDENT AND ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS

Dr. Nelson Arboleda Named Director of the Americas at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Global Affairs

FEATURED EVENTS

Dr. Lourdes M. Rojas First to Graduate from the Ph.D. in Prevention Science and Community Health Program

Sylvester Hosts Symposium on Preventing Cancer Among Firefighters

Reception Launches New Mental Health Research Center to Combat Miami's HIV/AIDS Epidemic

PUBLIC HEALTH NEWS End HIV/AIDS epidemic? It’s possible, and Floridians asked to get it done

Is it Zika or dengue? New CDC guidance advises doctors to test patients for both.

Immigration Enforcement: A Public Health Crisis

A New Tool to Improve Community Health

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