December is a month of endings and beginnings on college campuses. Last December, in addition to graduating 263 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, the USF College of Public Health said goodbye to three longtime faculty, Drs. Barbara Orban, Kate Wolfe-Quintero and Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano, along with staff member, Mary Johnson. “We have been fortunate […]
Emergency medical services (EMS) teams routinely triage patients based on the severity of their injuries. But sometimes, says a new study conducted by USF College of Public Health (COPH) researchers, that triaging can go too far. The study, “Association of mechanism of injury with overtriage of injured youth patients as […]
A group of USF College of Public Health students traveled to Orlando, Fla., in October to participate in the annual National Association of Health Services Executive (NAHSE) Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition. The competition is a scholarship program where graduate students in health administration, business administration and public health […]
Students aren’t the only new faces around the USF College of Public Health this fall semester. In Dean Donna Petersen’s annual State of the College Address on Friday, Sept. 22, she welcomed dozens of new faculty and staff. Here are some of the new Bulls on campus and a few […]
The USF College of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) received the full seven-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) for the master of health administration (MHA) degree program. “We are pleased to receive the maximum seven-year accreditation as it is evidence […]
Red light cameras save lives and money. Not so, according to John Large, PhD, Barbara Orban, PhD, and Etienne Pracht, PhD, health policy researchers in the USF College of Public Health. The trio completed a peer-reviewed statistical analysis of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study on red light […]
“The fact is that red light cameras change driver behavior and cut down on the most dangerous types of accidents,” says St. Petersburg Mayoral candidate Rick Kriseman. No so, according to investigators in the USF College of Public Health. PolitiFact Florida, an entity that reviews political statements for accuracy, recently […]