USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Arlene Calvo, associate professor, has participated in a series of focus groups talking with inner city youth in Panama to develop more appropriate public health messages in the context of COVID-19. This initiative, convened by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO) PAHO-WHO, is led by […]
Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 USF College of Public Health (COPH) faculty members have come together to provide credible public health messages and combat misinformation in Spanish. Salud Latina USF, as the group calls itself, includes the following Spanish-speaking faculty from the COPH: Arlene Calvo, […]
USF College of Public Health alumnus Ryan Graydon, who earned his MPH with a concentration in global health practice in 2017, has devoted his life and work to improve the public’s access to clean water. As a life scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 Office in Chicago, he […]
USF College of Engineering Professor James Mihelcic was visiting Tamatave on the east coast of Madagascar to see the work some of his former graduate students were doing on water sanitation and hygiene. That’s where he stumbled upon local artisans building hand pumps used to access shallow groundwater. “Right in […]
To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for health care workers and those living in areas of intense transmission, public health practitioners have developed educational flyers outlining COVID-19 biosafety-at-home protocols to reduce the threat of contamination at home. “Communication is an important aspect of our work in public health,” said […]
In 2004, the USF College of Public Health (COPH), in partnership with the Panamanian government and USF Health, developed the USF Health Panama Program at the City of Knowledge, an international academic and research campus in Panama. The program gives students from both countries and a variety of disciplines the […]
Dr. Miguel Reina Ortiz, an alumnus and assistant professor in the USF College of Public Health has long held an interest in working to solve the HIV epidemic around the world and specifically in Ecuador, where most of his schooling and education took place. Reina Ortiz continuously conducts various research […]
For returned Peace Corps volunteer and current USF College of Public Health graduate student Brian Richardson, the passion for helping others began at home. He served for three years, first in Mali as a water safety and hygiene volunteer and later in Gambia as a health extension volunteer. “My dad […]