– Researchers recommend engineering solutions to improve intersection safety – Tampa, FL (March 11, 2008) — Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude. The effective remedy […]
New anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosis – The DHFR enzyme from the parasites that cause malaria (blue) overlaid with the enzyme from the parasites that cause toxoplasmosis (red), with those residues involved in significant changes in the presence of the drug displayed in stick format. A new drug that will soon […]
Dr. Rony Francois, USF Health alumnus and faculty member, Appointed Assistant Secretary of Louisana DHH Office of Public Health Baton Rouge, LA (Feb. 20, 2008)– DHH Secretary Alan Levine announced today the appointment of M. Rony Francois, MD, as Assistant Secretary for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office […]
The USF College of Public Health’s Global Health Infectious Diseases Research Team is, l to r, Tom Unnasch, Wil Milhous, Dennis Kyle, John Adams and Alberto van Olphen. They all begin with a painless bite from a tiny blood-sucking insect – malaria, West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, leishmaniasis, filariasis. […]
Epidemiologist Thomas Mason, PhD, USF College of Public Health and Captain in U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Veterans’ Day celebrates and thanks the men and women who have served in our nation’s armed forces, which might bring to mind the usual five services of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines […]
Greg R. Alexander September 20, 1950 – February 20, 2007 The 2007 Martha May Eliot Award, honoring exceptional achievements in maternal and child health has been awarded posthumously to Greg Alexander, ScD, MPH, RS, by the American Public Health Association. A professor in both the USF colleges of Public Health […]
Dr. Charles Mahan joined public health leaders reflecting on 10-year mark of Florida’s historic $13-billion tobacco industry settlement While Florida has scored victories against cigarette makers since 1997, the state still has unfinished business in helping the 3.1 million adult Floridians who are still smoking, said Charles Mahan, MD, dean […]
Dennis Kyle, PhD Tampa, FL (Sept. 6, 2007) — A USF public health professor will contribute data to a new global network to monitor antimalarial drug resistance and guide malaria treatment and prevention policies. Dennis Kyle, PhD, a professor in the College of Public Health’s Department of Global Health, was […]