USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Heewon Gray, associate professor specializing in nutrition, and COPH PhD alumnae Drs. Acadia Buro and Whitney Fung Uy attended the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior’s (SNEB) annual conference in Atlanta in July to share their research with a global group of attendees who […]
USF College of Public Health alumna Sarah Glaser is a recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Glaser graduated from USF Honors College with a bachelor of arts in political science and bachelor of science in public health in the spring of 2022. As a Fulbright recipient, Glaser will study […]
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 46 percent of U.S. youth—or 34 million children—have had at least one adverse childhood experience by age 18, and more than 20 percent have had two or more. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events such as the death or incarceration of […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) alumna Manuela Thomas, who graduated from the college in 2017 with an MPH degree, was recently named to the board of directors at EmpowHERto. EmpowHERto is a nonprofit organization based out of Toronto and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The group is dedicated to helping 14- […]
September is National Child Passenger Safety Month Every 33 seconds, the National Safety Council (NSC) reports that a child in this country is involved in a car crash. Every nine days, another child dies from heat stroke in a car. And 66 children are killed annually in backup crashes. Motor […]
USF College of Public Health alum Charles Ford was recently selected as a 2022-2023 Gilman Scholarship alumni ambassador. He will serve as an official representative of the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program. The scholarship enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, […]
After a long career as a public high school math teacher, USF College of Public Health (COPH) alumnus Daniel Carella plans to retire next year and focus on growing his nonprofit, Relief Share, full time. Carella started Relief Share in 2003 while teaching international baccalaureate math at Lecanto High School […]
When it comes to the often-complex relationship between health care and the law, USF College of Public Health alumna and recent Stetson Law graduate Jessica Shoshana Zelitt is well-versed. The Lakewood Ranch, Florida native, who was named Stetson Law’s Spring 2022 valedictorian, has been managing Type 1 Diabetes since she was eight […]