A growing body of evidence shows that maternal trauma can impact a child’s health. UF EPI member Connie Mulligan studies how violence and stress in mothers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) affect their newborn’s health.
Researchers at the University of Florida and several peer institutions have developed a model mapping the spread of Zika virus in the Americas and predicting that the virus arrived in Brazil in late 2013 or early 2014 before spreading throughout the region. The model also projects the number of microcephaly cases that will occur by the end of the year, with hundreds of cases in Mexico, Haiti and Colombia, and thousands of cases in Brazil due to Zika virus infection.
