The 2015 Students With Diabetes conference was the largest yet, drawing some 180 participants to the Holiday Inn Westshore in Tampa over the Memorial Day weekend. The group’s founding director, Dr. Nicole Johnson, is excited by the response, which continues to grow year by year. “It was amazing, especially when […]
Recent honoree of the Society of Public Health Educators’ “30 under 30,” which shines the spotlight on 30 health educators under the age of 30, Paige Hammond is certainly an up-and-comer in public health education. Hammond has a long list of dream jobs, from diabetes educator to wedding or event […]
Bringing Science Home is offering a continuing medical education (CME) program for health professionals. “Type 1 Diabetes Discoveries and Realities” is a web-based series. The course includes six presentations that are accessible through May 31, 2015. Affiliated with the USF College of Public Health, Bringing Science Home is “a non-profit […]
Bringing Science Home, based in the USF College of Public Health, is the brainchild of its founding director, Nicole Johnson, DrPH, MPH. Funded through a private foundation’s gift, it also is her passion and a living embodiment of her life’s work. It’s phenomenal expansion over the past few years is grounded […]
Nicole Johnson’s Bringing Science Home is the recipient of a $90,000 grant from Novo Nordisk. This gift will support Students With Diabetes, a national program focused on four components: grassroots organization, research, internship programs, and a national conferences. Students With Diabetes has affiliate chapters on 30 college campuses. Last summer, […]
Diabetes awareness advocate Nicole Johnson first to receive doctor of public health degree from USF. While earning the inaugural DrPH degree at the USF College of Public Health, Nicole Johnson, executive director of the Bringing Science Home program at USF Health, continued to work full time as a highly visible […]
Hot temperatures and fewer graduates tend to make summer commencements a little subdued. But, not at the USF College of Public Health. This summer’s class of 164 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students includes the university’s oldest graduate for August commencement and the first person to earn a doctor of public health […]
For most students, starting college is a big enough challenge. But for some young people, the transition is made even more difficult by the fact that they’re diabetic. Student with Diabetes is an organization that started at USF Health and has since spread to over 30 other college campuses, with the goal of creating a support community for 18 to 30 year-olds and their loved ones. In June, USF hosted the group’s third annual national conference. Friendship and facts was the focus of the three-day event that brought together more […]