This past year, the USF College of Public Health celebrated 35 years of educating public health professionals with events and festivities honoring this historic milestone. A jewel in the crown of the University of South Florida, the COPH was founded in statute by the Florida Legislature in 1984 as the first […]
The USF College of Public Health (COPH) has been training students to become laboratory directors since 2017. The DrPH program in clinical laboratory science and practice program was implemented because of the emerging need for more laboratory directors in the United States. Clinical laboratories are vital to the country’s public […]
Ever contemplated the “Principles of Evaluation and Research for Health Care Programs”? Well, stop struggling. Public health researcher Kay Perrin, PhD, MPH addresses this and more in her recently published book. Noted as “A classroom-tested resource loaded with practical examples from across the health disciplines,” the book includes companion pieces […]
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has been associated with feelings of anger, fear, guilt, embarrassment, stigma and depression among women, but few studies have examined the emotional responses among men. A University of South Florida College of Public Health study shows that men shared many of these same negative emotional reactions […]
New online program helps all USF Health students track academic experience Corralling the details of every college activity, project and job has been greatly simplified for USF Health students with the unveiling of the new USF Health Student Portfolios. The online software helps students from throughout USF Health collect information […]
Animal cells similar to those of humans contain a “control room,” called the centrosome, which regulates cell replication. Disrupt this core hub and you kill cell division. That is the simple idea behind a new five-year, $2.1-million National Institutes for Health grant recently awarded to the USF College of Public Health’s […]
With a concerted pull of the drape hiding the sign, the formal name of the USF Health student services center was unveiled: The WELL. Several hundred staff, faculty and students from throughout USF Health gathered Jan. 16 to learn the Center’s new name and to help officially open what is […]
Like a kaleidoscope, The USF College of Public Health joins USF Health in its commitment to “Making Life Better.”