October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Guatemala has the third-highest rate of femicide (the homicide of women based on gender) in the world. And according to UN Women, 21.2 percent of Guatemalan women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. […]
USF College of Public Health doctoral candidate Isabella Chan is one of 16 2016-2017 recipients of the Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowships. The fellowship will support Chan while she completes her dissertation research in the Carhuaz province of Peru this upcoming September until May. Chan’s research study will explore women’s decision-making around […]
USF College of Public Health alumna Bernice Lopez-McCoy has some advice for recent graduates “You have to be willing to start at the bottom of the ladder in order to get to the top.” This mindset served Lopez-McCoy well over the course of her professional career and helped her land […]
USF College of Public Health undergraduate Lissette Ortiz was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study abroad in Costa Rica during the summer 2015 semester. “I now know that if I set my mind to something, I can make things possible,” Ortiz said. Ortiz is no stranger to being […]
A pair of USF professors from seemingly disparate disciplines are helping to further develop and refine a new medical alert system with state-of-the-art potential. “We were approached by a company that’s developing technology to monitor seniors at home,” said Dr. Carla VandeWeerd, assistant professor in the Department of Community and […]