Nine faces that are familiar to many around USF Health belong to nine dedicated employees whose work has earned each of them a 2008 USF Outstanding Staff Award. Each year, USF employees from across campus are selected to win the award, which recognizes those who demonstrate excellence and performance that […]
April 1, 2008. University of South Florida, College of Public Health, Tampa Bay. Writers for the New York Times interviewed USF Faculty member Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD, as a world expert on stillbirth for the April 1, 2008 article entitled “Seeking Answers to Stop Another Stillbirth”. The New York Times […]
Tampa, FL (April 2, 2008) — Miami-Dade County Health Department Administrator Lillian Rivera, RN, MSN, PhD, has been named the Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health for 2008 by the University of South Florida College of Public Health. The College bestows the award each year to a woman whose career […]
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 […]
– Researchers recommend engineering solutions to improve intersection safety – Tampa, FL (March 11, 2008) — Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude. The effective remedy […]
New anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosis – The DHFR enzyme from the parasites that cause malaria (blue) overlaid with the enzyme from the parasites that cause toxoplasmosis (red), with those residues involved in significant changes in the presence of the drug displayed in stick format. A new drug that will soon […]
** Click here for additional information. ** The COPH is pleased to announce an exciting preliminary schedule of events for National Public Health week 2008! This year the theme of NPHW is Climate Change and the Nation’s Health, as noted on the national site at http://www.nphw.org/nphw08/default.htm . A summary of […]