Author: Dorron Blumberg

 

July 15 2020 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a grant to a collaboration of Palm Beach County organizations to create a new peer-to-peer program for former substance users to aid in the mental health of people with substance use disorder. The CDC’s “Overdose Data to Action” grant provides $64,000 in funding for Alpert Jewish Family Service to train 16 Rebel Recovery Florida peer specialists to become instructors for Mental Health First Aid, a nationally renowned, evidence-based training course. Palm Health Foundation, known for bringing together community partners to develop innovative brain health solutions, led the effort to apply for and facilitate the CDC grant.
 

 

 

July 14, 2020 – Public health efforts depend heavily on predicting how diseases like COVID-19 spread across the globe. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a global data technology and advanced analytics leader, have received a rapid research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a model of COVID-19 spread using innovative big data analytics techniques and tools. The project leverages prior experience in modeling Ebola spread to successfully model the spread of COVID-19.

 

 

July 14 2020 – When dermatologist Heather Woolery-Lloyd, M.D., FAAD became director of University of Miami’s Ethnic Skin Care Division in 2002, it became one of the first cosmetic skin centers for people of color. Today, she heads a three-physician team – all women of color – under a newly named Skin of Color Division in the Dr. Philip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Health System. Only a handful of dermatology programs across the country have so many physicians specializing in skin of color care.