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As a public health researcher at a university, I spend my career focused on preventing chronic disease. We study obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and the many factors that shape health long before someone arrives at a doctor’s office. We encourage exercise, promote healthy environments and search for ways to make healthy choices easier

A digital tool first released in 2023 uses a touchpad computer like an iPhone or iPad to effectively screen young children for autism at scale, promising to open the door for support and intervention earlier than previously possible. But doctors and researchers developing the tool wanted to know whether conditions like ADHD might be challenging…

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University’s Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center have identified how hurricane flooding can impact health long after a storm.

Diagnosing and treating disease is often a long and uncertain process. Symptoms can take years to explain, therapies may not work the same way for every patient, and doctors frequently lack tools that reveal what’s happening inside the body early enough to change outcomes

Before she became a wellbeing leader, Laavenia Ramasegar(pictured above) was climbing towers, rooftops, and structures across the country as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. It was a world of technical precision, complex projects, and high-performance demands — but what caught her attention most was not the technology itself. It was the people behind it