This story originally published on April 21, 2015 in observance of the COPH’s 30th anniversary celebration. Three Distinguished USF Health Professors in the Department of Global Health at the USF College of Public Health – Drs. Tom Unnasch, John Adams and Dennis Kyle – are ranked among the university’s best […]

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by snail-transmitted flatworms. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease—which can cause scarring and inflammation of the liver, intestines and bladder, leading to anemia, malnutrition and learning difficulties, particularly in children—affects some 200 million people worldwide. The disease is most […]

Sara Daniels, a USF College of Public Health MSPH student, recently completed a competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) summer fellowship program. Daniels, who is concentrating in both health promotion and behavior and global communicable diseases, was a Graduate Research Fellow with the NIH’s G-SOAR program. The program provides U.S. […]

USF College of Public Health professors Drs. Monica Uddin and Derek Wildman are part of a team of researchers examining how the historical trauma experienced by Alaskan Natives can affect the way genes work, demonstrating the impact of traumas that occurred years or even generations before. Uddin and Wildman are […]

Lyme disease affects more than 300,000 people annually in the U.S. How can we predict when and where disease prevalence will be highest? Understanding the dynamics between ticks, mice and their habitats may provide important clues. Drs. Lynn ‘Marty’ Martin and John Orrock are investigating these complex interactions through a National Ecological Observatory […]

Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have greatly decreased deaths caused by Plasmodium falciparum malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that accounts for roughly 90 percent of the world’s malaria mortality. But Plasmodium falciparum is becoming increasingly resistant to ACTs, making an already dangerous parasite even more threatening. “Like antibiotic drugs used to treat other microbial infections, […]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly half of the world’s population in 2021 was at risk of malaria, a life-threatening disease most often transmitted to humans via mosquito bites. And while the disease is most prevalent in tropical countries, several cases of locally acquired malaria have recently been […]

Dr. Vania Assis, a postdoctoral scholar working at the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center for Global Health Inter-Disciplinary Research, recently guest edited an issue of the scientific journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  The issue focused on amphibian immunity. “Amphibians are a group of animals that […]