After Randi McCallian graduated college with a degree in psychology and a minor in biology, she married her love of science with service and began working with young children on the autism spectrum, providing in-home and community-based behavioral therapy.  It was work that ultimately drove her to study maternal child […]

A pipeline training program (PTP) is a step in the right direction toward diversifying the representation of professionals working in the field of maternal and child health (MCH), according to new research published by USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Anna Torrens Armstrong, associate professor.   In “An Overview of […]

Each year the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health chooses six graduate students to become MCH Student Leadership Scholars. Despite the pandemic, the scholars pressed on, taking part in a specialized curriculum and individualized, professional-development activities, albeit all remotely. But that virtual […]

Jennifer Ming Yin Su, a USF College of Public Health Maternal Child Health Pipeline Training Program (MCH PTP) scholar, recently participated in a virtual internship with the Tennessee Department of Health, all while working from her home in Hong Kong.  She said the internship, hosted by the National MCH Workforce […]

If you explore the field of public health, you’ll notice that many of the statistics used to represent the health of nations involve mothers and children. And for good reason. The health of individuals and families is vital to the health of the larger communities in which they live. In […]

Angela Makris, a December USF College of Public Health (COPH) grad who received her MPH with a concentration in social marketing, says that from the time she was a child, she knew she always wanted to help people. And she hasn’t stopped since. Born in Sydney, Australia, to Greek parents, […]

Twelve undergraduate students from various colleges across USF have been accepted into a Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Pipeline Training Program, known as MCH Train-A-Bull, at the USF College of Public Health’s Department of Community and Family Health (CFH). The two-year program provides mentorship, training and guidance for underrepresented undergraduate […]

USF College of Public Health doctoral student Nate Stanley is already practicing public health, long before he’s set to graduate. Stanley, earning a PhD from the Department of Global Health in the fall of 2019, is currently serving as a Research Coordinator I at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on […]