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AI and epidemiology: Can combining the two predict pandemics?

July 16, 2025

Scientists weigh the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in epidemiological models to predict pandemics.

Infographic of cartoon scientists and every-day people on a grid. Also on this grid are assorted tools used in epidemiological modeling that are 3D, and larger than the people, such as clipboards, graphics, computer screens, pills and computer code. There are white arrows and lines covering the grid connecting the people to these tools.

Scott Cohen wins the 2025 pre-doctoral research poster competition

May 7, 2025

UF College of Public Health and Health Professions Ph.D. candidate Scott Cohen won first place in the pre-doctoral poster competition at EPI Research Day 2025.

Person poses in front of the EPI vertical banner that reads

UF plant pathologists create top-viewed poster at plant disease conference

November 20, 2020

UF plant pathologists affiliated with both IFAS and the EPI earned the distinction of having a “top-viewed” poster at the virtual annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society.

Poster by University of Florida graduate student Alcalá-Briseño and Karen Garrett.

Mattia Prosperi and Volker Mai win illumina go mini scientific challenge

April 26, 2016

A Mini Cooper will soon be traveling Florida streets and highways as part of the University of Florida HealthStreet community engagement program, collecting bugs and bug “splats” on the bumper for a study of mosquito-borne viruses.