The Florida Prevention Research Center (FPRC) at the USF College of Public Health worked with the Lexington, Kentucky Tweens Nutrition and Fitness coalition to make healthy foods more accessible throughout the city. One initiative, Better Bites: Snack Strong, provides technical assistance and marketing support to improve the nutritional quality of […]
The American Public Health Association (APHA) hosts an annual event that attracts thousands of professionals and students from across the U.S. and world to network and share their research and experiences. Three students from USF College of Public Health received awards at the 143rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Oct.31-Nov.4, in […]
The 2016 University of South Florida Social Marketing Conference meets the needs of social marketers at all levels of experience. Taking place June 17-18 at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater, FL, the Conference includes conversational plenary sessions, interactive panels, and focused collaborative sessions. Call for abstracts is open until February 5, 2016. For more information, visit the conference website – http://thesocialmarketingconference.org/
De Mayor’s proclamation didn’t do a bit of good, Kase all de oldest citizens was breakin’ for the woods. You never seen so many folks at the Duval County Fair, As run aboard de steamboats in the Yaller Fever Scare. — From a song by the Florida Minstrels, ca. 1887 […]
Case study shows how USF’s Florida Prevention Research Center developed successful community programs that attracted the CDC’s attention The Florida Prevention Research Center at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health led a community-based obesity-prevention coalition to complete the Community-Based Prevention Marketing Policy Development process, following eight action […]
Florida Prevention Research Center’s Carol Bryant partners with Julie Baldwin on transition to 2016 retirement This month, Carol Bryant, PhD, distinguished USF Health professor and director of the Florida Prevention Research Center (FPRC) at the University of South Florida’s (USF) College of Public Health, will begin officially passing the torch […]
The World Health Organization has designated the USF College of Public Health as a WHO Collaborating Center for Social Marketing and Social Change to address non-communicable diseases. With the designation of WHO CC on Social Marketing, USF College of Public Health joins a select group of centers around the world. […]
The USF College of Public Health’s Florida Prevention Research Center held a strategic planning session with its national advisory committee in June, immediately after the conclusion of the Social Marketing Conference. The meeting provided PRC with valuable insights into revising its social marketing training website, said Mahmooda Pasha, a COPH […]