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UF & The Villages: COVID-19 Testing Center

Dr. Michael Lauzardo & the UF Health Team As published in the UF Health Newsroom, “University of Florida Health experts and their collaborators completed over 2,000 COVID-19 tests in The…

Celebrating Our Fellows’ Accomplishments

Congratulations to our fellows! As our 2nd year fellows finish their Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program this spring, we would like to congratulate two of our fellows for accepting positions at…

2019 Exemplary Teacher Award

Congratulations to DR. Vidhu Kariyawasam Dr. Vidhu Kariyasawam was recognized as a 2019 Exemplary Teacher by the University of Florida’s College of Medicine. Faculty are…

Meet Dr. Wang

The Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine would like to congratulate Dr. Gary Wang in being named Interim Division Chief.  Dr. Wang is the current Section Chief of the VA Infectious Diseases Section.

Disease-carrying mosquito species tied to deforestation

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two University of Florida infectious disease experts have found deforestation not only destroys beneficial habitats and renders the land less fertile, it also allows disease-carrying mosquitoes to multiply. An analysis of published data on deforestation and mosquitoes found that deforested tropical regions held more potentially harmful mosquito…