Chandler, Ron (PhD)

Lecturer
Department of Psychology

College: 

  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Email: 

ronchandler@ufl.edu
  • Psychology of sustainability.
  • Role of dignity in education in general and education for sustainability in particular in cultural context.
  • Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on landscape and wildlife (especially endangered species) in cultural context.
  • Community based conservation.

Area of Research: 

  • Cultural and Social Factors
  • Implementation and Behavioral Science
  • Water and Conservation, Climate Change and Environmental Factors

Region of Practice: 

  • Asia
  • South Asia

Country of Practice: 

  • India
  • Thailand
  • USA

Sanchez, Pedro (PhD)

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Professor
Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS)

College: 

  • College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Email: 

pedrosanchez@ufl.edu
  • Tropical soils management to support increased food production while conserving the environment.
  • Food security and environmental conservation.

Area of Research: 

  • Food Safety and Security
  • Water and Conservation, Climate Change and Environmental Factors

Region of Practice: 

  • Caribbean
  • South America
  • South Asia
  • Tropical Africa

Country of Practice: 

  • Brazil
  • Cuba
  • Indonesia

Vaddiparti,Krishna (PhD, MPE, MSW)

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology

College: 

  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

kvaddiparti@ufl.edu
  • Cross-cultural community based epidemiological research.
  • Designing adaptive interventions to enhance physical and mental health with hard to reach and vulnerable populations.
  • Domestic partner violence and community violence.
  • Addiction
  • HIV risk behaviors and adverse health outcomes, especially among women.

Area of Research: 

  • Cultural and Social Factors
  • Implementation and Behavioral Science
  • Neurology and Mental Health
  • Women's Health

Region of Practice: 

  • South Asia

Country of Practice: 

  • India

Ogram, Andrew

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Professor
Department of Soil and Water Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS)

College: 

  • College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Email: 

aogram@ufl.edu
  • Adaptation of microbial communities to human impacts, including shifts in microbial community structure in upland and wetland soils.
  • Distribution of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains in soils and waters.
  • Remediation of contaminated soils, waters and aquifers
  • Wetlands and aquatic systems
  • Soil quality

Area of Research: 

  • Water and Conservation, Climate Change and Environmental Factors

Region of Practice: 

  • South Asia

Country of Practice: 

  • India

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

McKune, Sarah (MPH, PhD)

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Director of Public Health Programs
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Global Health

College: 

  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

smckune@ufl.edu
  • Gender integration
  • Approaches to linking environmental and social systems
  • Health-based community needs and vulnerability assessment.

Area of Research: 

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

Region of Practice: 

  • South Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

Country of Practice: 

  • Guinea Bissau
  • Niger

Ali, Afsar (PhD)

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Research Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute

College: 

  • College of Public Health and Health Professions

Email: 

afsarali@ad.ufl.edu
  • Epidemiology and Ecology of Vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh, Haiti and Africa
  • Emergence of Vibrio Vulnificus in Aquaculture Reservoirs in Bangladesh
  • The genetic and physiologic analyses of rugose variant of V. cholerae
  • Sentinel surveillance of V. Cholerae in Haiti
  • Tracking the evolution, emergence and reemergence of V. cholerae worldwide
  • Vibriophages, cholera pathogenesis and V. cholerae evolution

Area of Research: 

  • Epidemiology and Surveillance
  • Infectious Disease

Region of Practice: 

  • Africa
  • Caribbean
  • South Asia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

Country of Practice: 

  • Bangladesh
  • Cameroon
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Haiti
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