Dr. Dennis Kyle (Global Health) and Dr. Roman Manetsch (Chemistry) have been awarded a new multiple PI five year R01 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The project entitled “Validation of New Antimalarial Leads” was awarded under the RFA for NIAID Partnerships with Product Development Public-Private Partnerships. The total award of $6.2 M has been made to a consortium including PIs Kyle and Manetsch at USF, Dr David Waterson at the Medicines for Malaria Venture (Geneva, Switzerland), Dr. Kip Guy at St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, […]

Thomas Bernard, Funding

The initiative brings together public and private health care leaders to improve the health of mothers and babies throughout the state. The collaborative’s first effort, a year-long pilot test of a toolkit designed to eliminate cesarean sections and inductions for non-medical reasons before 39 weeks of pregnancy, officially got under […]

Dr. O’Rourke is currently the location lead investigator for two sites of the National Children’s Study: Hillsborough County and Orange County, Florida.  Her current research will focus on cost effective monitoring of environmental chemicals in breast milk.

The U.S. Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) awarded 75 competitive grants to a broad range of organizations and agencies to replicate teen pregnancy prevention programs that have shown to be effective through rigorous evaluation. Out of 300 applications, the Florida Department of Health (FLDOH) was one of four applicants awarded at the highest funding level. A team from the Department of Community and Family Health helped to write the FLDOH proposal (Drs. Eric Buhi, Rita DeBate, Kay Perrin, Ellen Daley, and Stephanie Marhefka), with help from Dr. Wei Wang (Department […]

The Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats grant is an integral part of Dr. Milhous’ and Dr. Unnasch’s Public Health research.