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[08/2021]: Grateful to receive an administrative supplement from NIA and NIEHS to expand our parent award (R21ES032762) on the external exposome and COVID-19 severity to focus on individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
[05/2021]: Grateful to receive a K01 award from NHLBI to continue our research on the external exposome, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and women's cardiovascular health after delivery.
[04/2021]: Our review article on the semantic standards of external exposome data has been published on Environmental Research.
[01/2021]: Our external exposome-wide association study of COVID-19 Mortality in the US has been published on Science of The Total Environment.
[11/2020]: One paper on the chemical composition of fine particulate matter and gestational diabetes mellitus is published on Environmental Research.
[08/2020]: Grateful to receive a grant from NCATS, as the MPI, to support our research on assessing the feasibility of a universal prenatal screening tool to identify women at risk of pregnancy-associated death.
[08/2020]: Grateful to receive an R21 grant from NIEHS, as the contact PI, to support our research on studying the external exposome and COVID-19 severity.
[05/2020]: One paper on the external exposome-wide association study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is published by Environment International.
[02/2020]: A systematic review on environment-wide association study is published on Envionrmental Research.
[01/2020]: An invited commentary on air pollution and preeclampsia is published by Hypertension.
[06/2019]: One paper on the association between age at menarche and depression is published by PeerJ.
[05/2019]: Honored to be invited by AHA to participate the 45th annual Ten-Day Seminar on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
[04/2019]: One paper on the spatiotemporal patterns of racial disparities in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is published by Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.
[03/2019]: Honored to be awarded the Sandra A. Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease or Hypertension Epidemiology and Prevention by AHA.
[09/2018]: Excited to colloborate with Dr. Linda Cottler on a NIDA R21 grant, as a Co-I, to identify patterns of polysubstance use.
[08/2018]: Excited to be invited to review for the New England Journal of Medicine.
[05/2018]: One paper on the global burden of HIV-1 drug resistance is published by PeerJ.
[02/2018]: Excited to collaborate with Dr. Mattia Prosperi on a contract from Florida Department of Health to perform spatiotemporal analysis of HIV drug resistance.
[01/2018]: Excited to collaborate with the UF Diabetes Institute and Stanford University on a grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to improve access to Type 1 diabetes care.
[01/2018]: One paper on probablity sampling using GIS/GPS technologies is published by Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
[10/2017]: Grateful to receive a grant from UF Shands Quasi Endowment Fund, as the PI, to support our research on the data linkage between HealthStreet and UF Health Epic EHR.
[06/2017]: Grateful to receive a grant from American Heart Association, as the PI, to support our research on studying the total environment and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
[03/2017]: Excited to collaborate with Dr. Kelly Gurka and West Virginia University on a grant from CDC to perform policy evaluation on prescription drug overdose.
[12/2016]: Happy to successfully hold a series of meetups on health data science with PhD students in the department.