This summer, Drs. Wayne Westhoff (USF), Jaime Corvin (USF), Ismael Hoare (University of Belize) and Abigail McKay (University of Belize) opened the Belizean Field School as a collaborative partnership between the University of South Florida, the University of Belize (UB) and the Belize Ministry of Health. The first cohort […]
Students from the Global Health Student Association (GHSA) recently returned from a week long international healthservice trip to the Elías Piña province in the Dominican Republic assisting in an emergency response to a cholera outbreak in the region and providing needs assessments for communities. The team consisted of both graduates […]
The USF College of Public Health, Department of Global Health recently collaborated with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) to offer the 2011 Health in the Americas course from May 9th to May 20th. The 2011 Health in the Americas […]
PANAMA – Students from the International Health Services Collaborative (IHSC) recently returned from an intensive weeklong service project in the community of Villas del Carmen, Panama. The IHSC team consisted of 21 students from the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, and the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation […]
COPH graduate student Folashade Osibanjo will soon join fellow COPH graduate students Daragh Gibson (Panama), Samantha Spedoske (South Africa), and Stephen Cormier (invited to serve in Cameroon) as Peace Corps Volunteers. Osibanjo recently received her invitation from Peace Corps to serve as a Community Health Volunteer in Zambia through the Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) program. The PCMI program is a unique opportunity which allows COPH graduate students to carry out their coursework here in Tampa and their International Field Experiences as Peace Corps Volunteers. Peace Corps was established […]
The United Nations International Day of Families is celebrated each May at the United Nations headquarters and around the world. The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) joins in commemorating this day because it considers the family as a microcosm of the global community and because sustainable peace is grounded in the […]
According to a recent news release from the Peace Corps, USF has broken into the top ten Peace Corps Master’s International (PCMI) schools in 2011. With 12 graduate students serving in the field as of September 30, 2010, USF ranked tenth out of more than 80 colleges and universities […]