Food insecurity affects up to 50% of college students, with African American and Hispanic/Latino students experiencing it 1.5 times more often than their non-Hispanic White and Asian counterparts. That puts them at greater risk for not just health problems, but also depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, stress and poorer academic performance. […]
All five students in the USF College of Public Health (COPH) integrated MPH/dietetics internship program recently attended the Food and Nutrition Conference Expo (FNCE) in Denver in October. The FNCE is hosted by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a professional organization of nutrition and dietetics practitioners headed by Dr. […]
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 […]
LGBTQ+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their same-age heterosexual or cisgender peers, and experts say it’s not their sexual orientation or gender identity that ups their suicide risk but the isolation and stigma they feel because of discrimination against it. Kelli Agrawal, a USF College […]
Rain Freeman, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) PhD student concentrating in epidemiology, recently presented research about the effects of red tide on preterm birth at the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) conference held in Chicago in August. She conducted the research, “Florida Red Tides and Preterm Birth,” […]
While most countries prohibit the modification of human embryos using technologies like mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) and human germline genome editing, scientists and policymakers are increasingly calling for more relaxed restrictions. These technologies alter one’s germline (the cells that pass on genetic material), providing, proponents say, a way of eliminating […]
The USF College of Public Health is saying farewell to one of its esteemed faculty members, Dr. William Sappenfield, a USF Distinguished Professor and director of the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC) and the Chiles Center, both housed within the college and dedicated to cutting-edge research and education promoting the […]
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. […]