Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work Newsroom

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Dr. William Darrow, professor in the department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, along with Dr. Sharice M. Preston, Stempel College alumna and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, recently conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess differences in awareness, knowledge, and attitudes about human papillomavirus (HPV) and vaccination against HPV between men and women.  [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Led by Diana Azzam, in collaboration with Daria Salyakina, Dr. Ziad Khatib, Dr. Maggie Fader, and other doctors from Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, the clinical trial supported by the Live Like Bella Foundation is showing promising results. Able to test a tumor against hundreds of medications, Azzam and her team are finding interventions that are helping physicians treat cancer patients so that children go into remission. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] ccording the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 11 percent of American children between the ages of 4 and 17 have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Research guided by Timothy F. Page, interim chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, in collaboration with FIU’s Center for Children and Families, is working to better understand the economic burden that individuals and their families face because of ADHD. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Since its first cases, HIV prevalence all over the world have been historically associated with vulnerable groups, such as women and people from the LGBTTIQ community. Despite all the research on HIV/AIDS, and its epidemic for over 30 years, healthcare advances, and global neoliberal policies, there are still very few studies aiming to understand these intersections within an international setting including the Spanish speaking Caribbean (Puerto Rico), the United States, El Salvador, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Mozambique and Uganda. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Researchers at FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work are one-step closer to understanding how inhibiting dynamin related protein-1 (Drp1) in the brain might be a protective mechanism that can be used as a therapeutic strategy for Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] The Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work and FIU’s Global Health Consortium in partnership with College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts recently hosted the workshop, Global Health for Journalists. The goal of the three-day workshop was to increase overall knowledge of trending global health topics such as nutrition, diabetes, vaccination and anti-microbial resistance among the media who report on the topics. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] The School of Social Work, part of the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, has been selected out of more than 100 universities nationwide to participate in The National Council for Behavioral Health’s learning collaborative on the opioid epidemic. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] For almost 20 years, researchers have been investigating autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), working to better understand the disorder and the best treatments. The core symptoms and co-morbidities associated with ASD affect daily living and quality of life, yet current medical interventions can only treat some symptoms and not the underlying cause. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] The Dietetics and Nutrition program at Stempel College has been ranked fifth for overall best program in the 2020 rankings by College Factual, a website designed to help college-bound students identify their best fit in higher education. [/su_column] [/su_row]

[su_row] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] [/su_column] [su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] As we kick-off 2020, Dean Guilarte reflects back on his first four years at FIU and as dean of the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. [/su_column] [/su_row]