The 2012 This is Public Health calendar debuted at the 2011 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The calendar includes images from student field experiences that vividly portray public health in action.  For the first time since the calendar’s inception, a University of South Florida College of […]

There are several traditions that occur during National Public Health Week—service activities, health fairs, student awards—however, the Public Health Student Association’s Outstanding Professor Award is particularly special because the winners are selected by students in the University of South Florida College of Public Health. This distinctive honor is awarded to one […]

Angelia Sanders, MPH (GH,’08) is currently a desk officer for NATO’s Civil Military Fusion Centre (CFC), based in Norfolk, Virginia. The CFC is a knowledge management institution established by NATO in 2008 to facilitate the sharing of information between civilian and military actors working on complex crises in order to enhance […]

Bradley B. Biggers (GH/MIPC, ’08) is a member of the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Class of 2012 and the first USF alumnus to participate in the program. He and other health professionals will learn how to apply technology to the practice of public health. His two-year assignment is with […]

Rahul S. Mhaskar, PhD (GH,’10), MPH and a team of researchers with the USF Health Clinical Translational Science Institute/Evidence-Based Medicine group received the most prestigious honor in the field of evidence-based medicine—the Thomas Chalmers Award by the Cochrane Collaboration. The announcement was made at the Nineteenth Cochrane Colloquium in 2011 […]

Global Health would like to offer special congratulations to the following COPH students who received awards for their excellent posters and presentations: Emanny Sanchez (presented on behalf of  Curtis DeVetter), Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and  Global Health, “Fruit and Vegetable Access in Low-Income Rural Communities: Florida Case-Study” Steven P. […]