USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Stuart Brooks was honored with the 2021 Health Achievement in Occupational Medicine Award presented by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) on May 2 at their virtual annual conference. The ACOEM is the pre-eminent physician-led organization that champions the health of workers, […]

Most often, you are your family’s first defense, says FDA leader The last place you may expect to face a national security threat is at the dinner table. But that’s the first concern for Frank Yiannas, MPH ’03, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for food policy and response. Is our food […]

Serious injury and death from car crashes is a public health issue and USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, COPH assistant professor and research faculty for the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), aims to help address it.   She and her team have been awarded […]

It was a toxicology class at the Inter American University in Puerto Rico that spurred USF College of Public Health (COPH) graduate Dr. Luis F. Pieretti’s interest in industrial hygiene.  “At that time, I was thinking about pursuing a graduate degree, but I wasn’t sure in which field,” said Pieretti, […]

COVID-19 has taught us a lot of things. And one of the more important lessons has been the need for thorough, fast and effective disinfecting measures. A team of researchers from the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center for Environmental/Occupational Risk Analysis and Management set out to determine how […]