Russo, Sandra (PhD)

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Director, Office for Global Research Engagement, UF International Center
Director, Office for Global Research Engagement
UF International Center

Email: 

srusso@ufic.ufl.edu
  • Gender and development related to climate change and adaptation
  • Ecofeminism
  • Water resource management
  • Food security

Area of Research: 

  • Agriculture, Livestock and Plant Science
  • Community and Economic Development
  • Cultural and Social Factors
  • Water and Conservation, Climate Change and Environmental Factors

Region of Practice: 

  • Africa
  • Middle East
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Tropical Africa

Country of Practice: 

  • Botswana
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia

Young, Alyson (PhD)

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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

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  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

alys.yng@ufl.edu
  • Maternal/child health and nutrition
  • Environmental health justice
  • Applied biocultural/medical anthropology
  • Pastoral and rural smallholder communities

Area of Research: 

  • Community and Economic Development
  • Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies
  • Cultural and Social Factors
  • Women's Health

Region of Practice: 

  • Africa
  • Sahel
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

Country of Practice: 

  • Senegal
  • Tanzania
  • Zambia

Nelson, Eric (MD, PhD, FAAP)

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Assistant Professor
Child Health Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental and Global Health

College: 

  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

eric.nelson@ufl.edu
  • Develops clinical decision-support and data collection technologies to improve the health of poor communities in remote-settings using a process called human centered design to define challenges and explore sustainable solutions.
  • Develops high-throughput molecular methods to track infectious disease outbreaks in near real-time.
  • Characterization of fine-scale transmission of water-borne pathogens between and within households in remote settings.

Area of Research: 

  • Community and Economic Development
  • Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies
  • Epidemiology and Surveillance
  • Infectious Disease

Region of Practice: 

  • Africa
  • Caribbean
  • South Asia

Country of Practice: 

  • Bangladesh
  • Haiti
  • Tanzania

Lauzardo, Michael (MD)

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Chief
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine

College: 

  • College of Medicine

Email: 

Mike.Lauzardo@medicine.ufl.edu
  • Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.
  • Drug resistant tuberculosis.
  • Screening and treatment of latent tuberculosis.
  • Global health education.
  • Pediatric oncology in developing countries.

Area of Research: 

  • Epidemiology and Surveillance
  • Training and Capacity Building
  • Tuberculosis

Region of Practice: 

  • Caribbean
  • Latin America

Country of Practice: 

  • Dominican Republic
  • Haiti
  • Mexico
  • Tanzania

Cottler, Linda (PhD, MPH, FACE)

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Associate Dean for Research and Planning, College of Public Health and Health Professions and Chair of Epidemiology
Professor
Department of Epidemiology

College: 

  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

lbcottler@ufl.edu
  • Development of culturally reliable and valid measures for identifying substance use, abuse and dependence, along with mental illness and their risk factors.
  • Innovative methods for conducting national surveys of high-risk behaviors among youth.
  • Community engagement models to identify cohorts for longitudinal assessment of health needs, concerns and reduce health disparities.

Area of Research: 

  • Community and Economic Development
  • Cross-Disciplinary Methodologies
  • Cultural and Social Factors

Region of Practice: 

  • Africa
  • Caribbean

Country of Practice: 

  • Afghanistan
  • Australia
  • Haiti
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
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