Viviana Horigian (standing at left) and Rosa Verdeja (standing at right) lead a clinical trial protocols discussion with researchers visiting the Miller School from Mexico’s National Institute of Psychiatry.

After years of conducting successful, randomized drug abuse treatment clinical trials for Spanish speakers and general populations in Florida and the nation, researchers from the Miller School’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health are exporting their expertise to Mexico.

Armed with a two-year $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of State, they are training researchers at Mexico’s Ramón de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry to conduct randomized clinical trials in Mexico with the same rigor used in the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse’s National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (NIDA-CTN). Read the full story

Xiang Liu of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester Medical Center will present “Estimation and Variable Selection for Partially Linear Additive Models” on Thursday, May 26 at 11 a.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Room 988.

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will host Grand Rounds on Wednesday, May 18 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Gordon Center’s Broad-Bussel Auditorium, located on the first floor of the Clinical Research Building on the Miller School of Medicine campus. Carolyn M. Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the Department of Health and Human Services, will discuss: the national initiative to improve heath care quality and transform health services delivery through research; the role of comparative effectiveness research as a tool for improving health care quality and cost benefits; the newly approved Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute; and issues ranging from implementation and dissemination of evidence-based approaches required to improve quality of care to the importance of collaboration in advancing the science of health care delivery and public health. For more information, please contact Jane Brooks at [email protected], or click here.

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health will host an open house on Wednesday, April 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, Room 665. The open house will provide an in-depth look at the department’s Master in Public Health Program, giving attendees an opportunity to learn more about the growing field of public health, meet one on one with faculty and program administrators, and talk to current students about their courses and research. Refreshments will be served. RSVP to Becky Greenfield at [email protected], or fill out this form.

Adrian Dobra, assistant professor of statistics and nursing at the University of Washington, Department of Statistics, will present “Multi-Way Gaussian Graphical Models with Application to Multivariate Lattice Data” on Wednesday, April 13 at 2 p.m. in the Clinical Research Building, Room 988. For more information, email Michele Gomez at [email protected]. To learn more about the speaker’s presentation, click here.