For more information on Public Health’s GHIDR team, click here. Two researchers from the College of Public Health’s Global Health Infectious Diseases Research team have recently written publications on the newest treatments for one of the oldest and still among the most prevalent scourges — malaria. Wilbur Milhous, PhD, professor […]
Public Health Dean Donna Petersen, ScD, is USF’s representative to the Indo-U.S. Joint Collaboration in Environment and Occupational Health. College of Public Health Dean Donna Petersen, ScD, recently returned from intensive meetings in India, where she helped tackle the challenge of reducing fatalities from traffic accidents. With the world’s highest […]
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. […]
It sits on a sprawling, metropolitan college campus. Outside, you’re greeted by swaying palm trees and dancing rays of sunlight bouncing off huge glass windows. It is unmistakably Florida. What happens inside is even more impressive! For ten years the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies […]
USF Health hosts Betty Castor, Patel Center for Global Solutions, at the USF Health office in Panama This April, USF Health and the College of Public Health were delighted to host Dr. Betty Castor, executive director of the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions together with Dr. Mark […]
“They are breaking ground as we speak—they are setting the first stone for the foundation!” in Hyderabad. Anitha Thippaiah (at right), physician from India and Master of Public Health student at USF was clearly beaming, knowing that she is part of a new initiative in India to improve public health […]
Public Health Day Registration Public Health Day Sessions The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) will convene the 67th Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida on March 28-31 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The theme of the meeting is “Global Insecurities and Global Solutions for the 21st Century.” The College of […]
According to Komal D’Souza, Vice-President for COPH – IHSC, MPH candidate, “Students from all four USF Health disciplines worked alongside the local community members and we all had the opportunity to learn from each others experiences.” Traveling to El Seibo in eastern Dominican Republic, IHSC helped initiate several sustainable health […]