Researchers focus on AIDS prevention in Hispanic adolescents

11/14/2011 By
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The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has awarded FIU a $2.3 million grant to research prevention methods to address Florida’s unexpectedly grim HIV epidemic. The frequency of reported HIV cases among Florida Hispanics is nearly twice the national rate. Among states with dominant Hispanic populations, Florida ranks third in [...]

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FIU public health professor receives Presidential award for her research

09/26/2011 By
From right to left: Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Mary Jo Trepka, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, and John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Photo: NASA/Paul E. Alers

FIU Public Health Professor Mary Jo Trepka received one of the country’s highest honors for researchers on Friday, Oct. 14. President Obama named Trepka, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, as one of the recipients of the Presidential [...]

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Three South Florida public institutions join forces to combat Miami’s epidemic

02/15/2011 By

Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, together with FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work and the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, will join WPBT2 and the Miami-Dade Health Department on February 16 for a special prime time broadcast on the resurgence of HIV/AIDS [...]

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FIU nursing students throw a block party to promote AIDS/HIV prevention

10/12/2010 By

Oct. 15 is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day MIAMI — Friday, October 15 is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, and nursing students from the Florida International University (FIU) College of Nursing & Health Sciences are hosting an event to inform FIU students about HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. The “Paella Block Party,” [...]

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Lessons from South Africa: FIU professor and alumni report on HIV/AIDS pandemic

02/12/2010 By
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In Lessons from South Africa, a 30-minute documentary that aired Oct. 15 on WPBT2 , FIU professor Allan Richards and journalism alums Jillian Simms ’08 and Tiffany Parkes ’07 (both students at the time of filming) share their experience of traveling to the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The team reports [...]

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FIU professor receives grant to study racial disparities in AIDS survival

12/22/2009 By
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Mary Jo Trepka, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, has received a $1.3 million grant for a unique five-year study that will focus on racial disparities in AIDS survival in Florida. African-Americans in the United [...]

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