Cuc Tran, a UF CTSI TL1 Scholar, is a recipient of UF’s 2014 Graduate Student Mentoring Award. Given by UF’s Innovation Through Institutional Integration program, or I-Cubed, the award recognizes graduate students in STEM disciplines who help others succeed as graduate or undergraduate students or in K-12 classrooms. She was recognized at a ceremony on Oct. 28 during UF’s Graduate Student Research Day.
A doctoral student in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions department of environmental and global health and recipient of a CTSI TL1 predoctoral training grant, Tran’s research interests include influenza control and school-based influenza vaccination programs. Before starting her doctoral studies, she served as the coordinator for the School-Located Influenza Vaccination program in Alachua County, which provided influenza vaccinations to more than 30,000 children and has been recognized by the CDC and the American Medical Association.
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