Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is about 99 percent effective in reducing the risk of contracting HIV from sex, but that’s only if it’s taken daily. When users forget, lack motivation for taking a daily pill or experience barriers to getting the drug, risk goes up. An implantable, biodegradable PrEP device, […]
Faculty across several disciplines at USF Health earned National Institutes of Health funding to streamline prenatal, obstetric, pediatric, treatment, behavioral and community health care for patients with opioid use disorder. Called CADENCE (Continuous and Data-Driven Care), the new program will better serve pregnant patients and new parents, as well as […]
USF College of Public Health’s associate professor Dr. Cheryl Vamos, along with Dr. Jill McCracken, a gender and sexuality expert in USF’s College of Arts and Sciences, are co-principal investigators of the Choosing Myself grant exploring teen pregnancy prevention among justice-involved and marginalized youth. The two-year, nearly $800,000 grant from […]
Amanda DeWeese was pregnant with her oldest child when she began her graduate studies toward an MPH in maternal and child health at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health (USF COPH). She had just earned two undergraduate degrees in 2008 from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in health […]
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Guatemala has the third-highest rate of femicide (the homicide of women based on gender) in the world. And according to UN Women, 21.2 percent of Guatemalan women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month Looking for a career that would provide job growth and allow her to help people in need, Pam Kelsky decided to pursue an MHA after receiving her bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Florida. And she decided to pursue that degree at […]
When Xonjenese Jacobs, a USF College of Public Health DrPH student, got her BSW degree, she knew she wanted to make at-promise adolescent girls her “population of choice.” She now serves as the executive director of the Pace Center for Girls, Hernando, a position she was appointed to in July. […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) graduate student YaMaya Barley received the newly established Russell S. Kirby Scholarship in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) this past August. To qualify for the scholarship, applicants must be graduate students enrolled full-time. Moreover, Dr. Russell Kirby, USF Distinguished Professor and Marrell Endowed Chair, […]