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SPOTLIGHT
LAVISH
The Spotlight feature this week is the lovely Lavish, and she is definitely living the Lavish life. Lavish says that model has always been a word she’s connected to. She has served as a "model" most of her life even as a small child. Lavish loves to show who she is in fashion and design, and she absolutely loves posing and tak- ing pictures with different designer fashions or fash- ionable items she has created on her own. Congratulations to Lavish as this week’s Spotlight fea- ture.
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Florida Taps FAMU Experts To Help Fight COVID-19
~Middleton High School students, please login to Edsby, if you haven't to com- plete the survey.
~Meals are being served 9AM to 1PM (Monday thru Friday on the bus ramp on Osborne Ave.)
~Meals are inclusive of Breakfast and Lunch.
• Students please set up and log in to Telegram (if possi- ble, as another resource) for updated communication from the school
• Please contact the school if you need a laptop and/or communicate any other ques- tions/concerns through Edsby or Telegram to any Middleton Administrator (Tiatasha Brown- Princi- pal, Gwen Hodge - APC, Brittney Wilhelm - APMC, Henry Washington - AD, Henry Scurry - 9th graders (Seniors H-P), Gabrielle Flores - 10th graders (Se- niors A-G), and Brustoa White - 11th graders (Se- niors Q-Z)
• All Students, please Log in to Edsby to communicate with your teachers
~Continue to check the Middleton website, middle- ton.mysdhc.org, for updates.
Tonya A. Sheffield- Floyd, M. S., Magnet Lead, is the Community Volunteer Coordinator, Middleton High School.
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) has tapped into the expertise of the FAMU In- stitute of Public Health, housed in the FAMU College of Pharmacy, to assist the state in its fight against the spread of COVID-19, the Coronavirus pandemic.
DOH is relying on a team of four FAMU public health pro- fessors and four students who have been assigned to Talla- hassee and South Florida to help with health messaging and data analysis. The FAMU team will also be working with assisted living facilities and skilled nursing centers and participating in triaging calls following a rubric and, if nec- essary, contacting the county epidemiologists for follow-up with the county health depart- ment and the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) personnel.
The FAMU Team members will be working 12-hour shifts helping Florida officials un- derstand and fight the spread of the panademic. Team mem- bers will not be interacting di- rectly with patients.
“I am so proud of this team,” said C. Perry Brown, DrPH., team leader and epi- demiologist in the FAMU Col- lege of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Insti- tute of Public Health. “We are
FAMU PHARMACY
trained and prepared for this moment – this time.”
About a week ago, the Florida Department of Health reached out to public health epidemiology programs and schools of public health from across the state to provide sup- port to the state in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Shamarial Roberson, DrPH., Deputy Secretary at the Florida Department of Health is a graduate of the FAMU Institute of Public Health.
The FAMU team includes biostatisticians, environmen- tal epidemiologist (trained in disaster preparedness), and health educators. Two team members – Stephanie Colter and Justin Williams – are doctoral epidemiology students. Kamaria Jacobs and Reginald Turner are pursuing master’s degrees in public health focusing on epi- demiology and environmental epidemiology, respectively.
The Coronavirus is one of the largest public health emer- gencies to face the nation.
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