It’s not hard to see how suicide is a public health issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one person dies by suicide every 11 minutes in this country. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., and certain groups, including young […]
USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Arlene Calvo, associate professor, and Erik Ruiz, PhD student, are recipients of the 2021 USF Hispanic Heritage Awards. The USF Status of Latinos (SOL) Committee presents the awards each year to “outstanding Latinx members of the USF community making a profound difference” and recognizes […]
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Dr. Acadia Buro, a recent USF College of Public Health PhD graduate, will present research on obesity in adolescents at the upcoming American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting. The APHA meeting will be held Oct. 24-27 in Denver. Buro will present two posters, […]
The USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center of Excellence in MCH Education, Science and Practice was recently awarded funding for another five years (2020-2025) from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), housed within the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. The […]
The USF College of Public Health’s postdoctoral enhancement component of the five-year Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Training Grant welcomes two new postdoctoral scholars in 2018, Dr. Taylor Livingston from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Nicholas Thomas from Tulane University. Their COPH appointments began in […]
Dr. Abraham A. Salinas-Miranda, visiting research scholar in the USF College of Public Health’s Department of Community and Family Health, has been published in the August issue of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. The report is titled “Adverse childhood experiences and health-related quality of life in adulthood: revelations from […]
USF College of Public Health researcher Dr. Roneé E. Wilson and colleagues published “Transformative Use of an Improved All-Payer Hospital Discharge Data Infrastructure for Community-Based Participatory Research: A Sustainability Pathway.” The study appears in the April issue of Health Services Research, the official journal of AcademyHealth. Dr. Wilson is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research interests include reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, with significant publications in both areas. Wilson earned her PhD in EPB and was a postdoctoral fellow in the department. During her […]
Public health researchers Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD, Abraham A. Salinas-Miranda, MD, PhD, Jason Salemi, PhD, MPH and colleagues are co-authors on a publication entitled “National Trends in Maternal Use of Opioid Drugs among Pregnancy-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 1998 to 2009.” The study is in the July issue of the […]