The endowed Amanda Gill Memorial Fund was established to provide further research or educational opportunities to students studying public health, specifically in the area of infectious disease, which Amanda was passionate about.

USF College of Public Health alumna Amanda Gill had a heart for helping others.

A graduate of the first BSPH class in 2011, her parents said Amanda had a passion for working with people with infectious diseases and always said she wanted to work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or in Africa to help AIDS patients.

Amanda was born in September of 1988 in Clearwater, Fla. She spent the majority of her education at Northside Christian School before transferring to Clearwater Hight School, where she graduated.

While attending USF, Gill worked at Busch Gardens and was awarded the Employee of the Year award. But being a big sister was her true badge of honor. “She was a fierce protector of her younger brother, Matthew, who also ended up attending USF, and always had his back,” Amanda’s father, Jim, said.

Always on the go, her family said she was involved in many activities in her free time and was a light to others. She loved adventure, her dog, Oakley, and had a heart to help. “She wanted to help people more than anything,” her mother Denice said. “When she smiled, everybody smiled.”

After graduating the COPH, Amanda’s  career path lead her across many different cities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. From food safety for local restaurants to the North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center, Amanda’s parents said that each role could be linked back to her interest and experience in public health.

One role even led her right to the front lines of COVID at a drive-thru testing center.

In her most recent role, Amanda worked as an Infection Preventionist at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.

“She wanted to do the best and go above and beyond,” said Shalom Patel, infection prevention manager of operations at Piedmont Healthcare with whom Amanda worked. “Amanda was fun and very bright, and she had an infectious smile. She was one of my most enthusiastic employees who was always very open and honest with me, which I appreciated. She was a team player and went out of her way to help other people. Acceptance overall was really important to Amanda.”

During her time at Piedmont, Patel said a big part of Amanda’s role was collaborating closely with the engineering department. She also worked with the MRSA-prevention team and infection prevention in the cardiac critical care unit areas.

Patel also noted that Amanda was a natural leader and mentor who took new employees under her wing.

“When she moved to Atlanta to work at Piedmont, she was very happy,” Patel said. “Amanda said this was the type of work she wanted the whole time. In infection prevention, she got to be the ‘boots on the ground,’ I think she was in the right place.”

In 35 years, Amanda lived a full life and was invested in helping so many others. “She was a shining light in all of our lives,” Denice Gill said.

A Celebration of Life was held Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, at Central Christian Church in St. Petersburg, Fla. Live Stream Link: https://boxcast.tv/view/amanda-gill-memorial-service-3p-vnovk1edkyfq3jnemasb

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that you please consider donating to the Amanda Gill Memorial Fund #540045 at the University of South Florida.

Donations may be mailed to: USF Foundation, Inc., 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ALC 100, Tampa, FL 33620 (ATTN: Beth Ahmedic, USF Health); memo line: Fund #540045 Amanda Gill Memorial Fund

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The USF College of Public Health (COPH) is partnering with the Florida Department of Health, Hillsborough County, on programs designed to help build, reinforce and retain the public health workforce in the county.

Funding for the county’s programs, totaling more than $15 million over five years, is coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Public Health Infrastructure Grant Program. The COPH itself will receive more than $5 million of that amount.

The goal of the grant program, which overall will award more than $4 billion over five years to public health departments around the country, is to “help ensure that every U.S. community has the people, services and systems needed to promote and protect health,” according to the program’s website.

The college got involved when the county health department reached out to COPH Dean Donna Petersen, saying that they had met a population eligibility requirement set forth by the grant.

“They said, ‘We meet the eligibility requirement of having a population of 1 million or more, but we need the college’s help writing the proposal and developing programs,’ ” said Petersen, who is the principal investigator on the grant. “So we worked together with the county to develop public health workforce skills development, leadership training and programs intended to refresh, revive and retain public health professionals. We’ll also be adding wellness programs that address burnout and stress. And all these things will be available not only to the county’s health department staff but also to its partners, including the school district, Healthy Start and others.”

In addition to specially developed programs, the grant will also focus on creating a more streamlined process whereby public health personnel and partners can gain early access to both undergraduate and graduate COPH courses and certificates (with grant money covering tuition). Eligible employees can also complete a CPH exam prep course and sit for the exam.

“The COPH is excited to have the opportunity to work closely with the Hillsborough County Health Department and its partners to build a stronger, more effective public health workforce and system in this community,” said Petersen. “These programs will have a robust audience.”

Programs are expected to start in the next fiscal year.

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Sherri Berger, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) acting deputy director for policy, communications and legislative affairs and a USF College of Public Health (COPH) alumna, has received the Robert W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership.

The award recognizes and honors federal career executives for the Senior Executive Service (members serve in key positions just below presidential appointees) who have demonstrated superior dedication and leadership in achieving their agency’s mission and nurturing future managers.

“I am deeply honored to accept this award and to continue answering the call of public service every day,” said Berger, who concentrated in epidemiology and graduated from the COPH in 1996 with an MSPH.  “I would be remiss in accepting this award if I didn’t recognize the efforts of the more than 12,000 people at CDC who are hard at work, day in and day out, protecting the health of our nation.”

Berger has been at the CDC for more than 26 years. And in that time, she’s held a variety of leadership roles, from chief operating officer to associate director of the Financial Management Office to a brand chief of public health policy, among others.

“I’ve always felt that life is about learning and growing,” she said. “And I’ve tried to make the most out of every opportunity. While I was a scientist, for example, I took additional leadership training. And while I was a leader, I took additional financial management training. I always volunteered to do things that were outside the scope of my job so that I could expose myself to different things. I was thinking about those next steps in my career path and getting myself ready for that.”

And for Berger, it’s not just about her own career path, but also about those who work alongside her.

“What I’ve tried to do in my career is find junior staff and give them opportunities to come to meetings and be exposed to decision-making processes and things that they wouldn’t normally get to see early in their career,” she commented.

Berger says she’s appreciative of her time at USF and credits the college with helping her get to where she is today.

“The COPH faculty, staff and students helped me reach my full potential, and what I have achieved professionally, with their support, has helped me earn this award,” she added.

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Kelli Agrawal, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) PhD student concentrating in community and family health, is a Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) student fellow in injury prevention. The fellowship, which runs from Sept. 2022 to July 2023, is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

The fellowship recognizes, assists and trains students working on research or practice-based projects in unintentional injury prevention from the perspective of health education or the behavioral sciences. It also includes suicide prevention as an area of interest.

Agrawal’s research focuses on suicide prevention among youth and LGBTQ+ communities, particularly in Pinellas County, Fla.

“Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among youth and young adults in the United States, and the risk of suicidal behaviors is even higher among LGBTQ+ youth,” Agrawal said. “Throughout my time in the PhD program, I have been involved with different suicide-prevention research projects, but it was the Growing Hope initiative [that aims to raise awareness of and engage community partners in suicide-prevention resources] with Dr. Joe Bohn, [a COPH assistant professor and director of community engagement] and the Communication Resilience course offered by Dr. Patrice Buzzanell (in the Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences at USF) that inspired my idea for the workshops. As someone who experienced suicidal behaviors during adolescence and has lost loved ones to suicide, this issue is also very important to me personally.”

The fellowship project is a collaborative endeavor with the Zero Suicide Partners of Pinellas, a collective impact project with a mission to end suicide in Pinellas County.

“The workshops are designed to be interactive and focus on strengths-based primary prevention strategies, which help participants enact communication resilience [defined as the communication methods people use to cope with disruptive life events] intentionally and mindfully, not only in moments of crises but throughout their day-to-day lives,” Agrawal explained. “These strategies also closely align with the Growing Hope action message: Be Kind, Be Curious and Be Connected.”

Agrawal says the fellowship has given her access to resources, support and collective expertise that will benefit her academic journey and professional life. 

“I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to have received the fellowship,” she said. “Even more so, I feel a great sense of responsibility. I am hopeful that these workshops will have a positive impact on participants, as well as their families, school and communities.”

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded the USF College of Public Health (COPH) funding to develop an infection control resource center for emergency responders. 

The center will be based at the COPH, said its program director Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe. Other faculty will include the COPH’s Drs. Anna Torrens Armstrong, Ann Joyce and Kelli Barr as well as Candace Burns from the College of Nursing and the Sunshine Education and Research Center (Sunshine ERC).

“The overall purpose of the project is to develop a multi-modal approach to deliver infection prevention and control (IPC) education to emergency responders. The center will serve as a hub for recruitment, dissemination, referral and subject matter consultation,” explained McGuire-Wolfe, a COPH alumna. 

A multi-disciplinary project team will contribute to program planning and evaluation. They will help determine delivery methods based on information collected from a needs assessment conducted with field and administrative representatives from emergency medical services (EMS) and the fire service, McGuire-Wolfe noted. Included in the funding are roles for two doctoral and two MPH students as well as a trainee from the Sunshine ERC who will assist with administrative duties, literature and policy reviews, lab tasks and other roles.

Through a CDC cooperative agreement, the college will partner with CDC over the next five years to create and operate the center. The college will receive nearly $500,000 this year, with the potential for substantial additional funding in each of the next four years.

“This cooperative agreement with the CDC provides an amazing opportunity for the COPH to emerge as a leader in the development of IPC procedures in the emergency response arena,” said McGuire-Wolfe, herself a firefighter/medic and former infection control officer. “Historically, emergency responders have not been included in infection control efforts for traditional health care workers. I have often observed the challenges inherent in applying hospital-based recommendations or IPC practices in the prehospital setting—for example, on the side of the road or in a moving ambulance, under poor lighting, and working in a small, confined space with less-than-optimal ventilation and no running water.”

McGuire-Wolfe noted that patients and bystanders in these settings can be unpredictable, and the safety of the scene can change rapidly. EMS and fire personnel must make rapid decisions regarding patient care with limited information. “Balancing all of these demands while implementing IPC principles is a unique challenge that requires (and deserves) specific education and information for emergency responders,” she said.

With a rising incidence of health care associated infections, specifically in underserved populations, McGuire-Wolfe said the time is right to develop a center devoted to studying infection control practices for emergency responders.

“Addressing gaps in knowledge, attitudes and practices for IPC in the prehospital setting will positively impact patient outcomes and decrease or mitigate the likelihood of exposure to infectious diseases for EMS and fire personnel,” McGuire-Wolfe said. “In addition, the center will create visibility for and an expectation of IPC education, resources and policies specific to emergency responders.”

This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $482,034 in the first year with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Dr. William Sappenfield, director of the USF Chiles Center, was recently named a USF Distinguished University Professor.

The Distinguished University Professor award recognizes senior faculty members who have distinguished themselves among their peers both within and outside USF. The title is awarded through a process of nomination and external peer review. Those who hold the award are identified as outstanding members of their profession.

Becoming part of this elite group of professors means Sappenfield’s responsibilities will include serving in an advisory group for the provost and president of USF, providing counsel on issues affecting the overall academic and scholarly activities of the university and giving a university-wide address during the academic year.

“I am absolutely thrilled to share with you that Dr. Bill Sappenfield has just been named a Distinguished University Professor!” said COPH Dean Donna Petersen. “These honors are highly coveted and highly competitive. Many are nominated, with only a few selected. The selection process is an arduous one involving an intensive internal and external review of the candidate’s credentials.”

After a 22-year career as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) epidemiologist, Sappenfield came to Florida in 2005 to serve as the Florida Department of Health’s (DOH) state maternal and child health (MCH) epidemiologist and unit director for the MCH practice and analysis unit leading research, epidemiology, evaluation and health data efforts to guide policies and programs for Florida mothers and children.

At the DOH, he joined the pregnancy-associated mortality review team, bringing his epidemiological expertise to the table and leading deeper analyses of the mortality data. He led the development of perinatal periods of risk profiles for each county and each Healthy Start coalition area in the state, giving local MCH advocates understandable data to guide policy development. He also led efforts to monitor and study Florida’s high maternal and infant mortality rates.

Sappenfield then joined the faculty at the COPH in 2011, teaching maternal and child health, epidemiology and public health practice.

“From Dean Petersen, to the faculty, staff and students, I chose the COPH because public health is our passion and translation of research into practice is valued,” Sappenfield said. “Collaborating with others is a key component of the COPH’s DNA.”

Publishing extensively on maternal and infant mortality, morbidity and related health issues, he has also focused on mentoring and teaching young professionals to serve as MCH epidemiologists in governmental public health agencies at a local, state and national level. He also trains  multidisciplinary teams of public health practitioners and community members to effectively use data to improve maternal and child health.

Sappenfield was also instrumental in developing the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC) in 2011, serving first as a co-director with Dr. John Curran, and the director since 2016. 

As director of the FPQC, Sappenfield champions its mission to advance health care quality and patient safety for all of Florida’s mothers and babies through collective quality improvement efforts with state and hospital partners.  

One of Sappenfield’s most rewarding experiences at the COPH was the FPQC earning the Sapphire Award.

“The FPQC as an organization receiving the Sapphire Award recognizing leadership, excellence and innovation in nonprofit community health leadership and programming improving maternal and infant health in Florida,” Sappenfield said.

Sappenfield’s current research projects include maternal and infant mortality, chronic diseases during pregnancy, assistive reproductive technology, unintended pregnancy and contraceptive use, non-medically indicated deliveries prior to 39 weeks, population-based perinatal quality improvement efforts, access to childhood preventive dental care and use of data file linkages in maternal and child health.

“A recognition like this from your peers is always very special. It recognizes you and the value of the work that you do with others,” Sappenfield said. “You can only be effective in public health through working collaboratively with others.”

Sappenfield said that he will continue to strive to improve the health of Florida’s mothers and infants.

“This is not only a personal achievement for Dr. Sappenfield but an honor we can all share in as it contributes to the growing positive reputation of the COPH and ultimately in the larger community,” Petersen said. “We also know that none of us succeeds on our own—it takes teams of dedicated colleagues and the commitment of our highly skilled staff to complement and amplify the perseverance of a senior scholar devoted to his passion to make the world a better place, in this case, for women and children.”

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The USF College of Public Health (COPH) has been given a sub-award of $1.055 million from the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) to help grow the public health laboratory workforce. 

The award is part of a larger grant ($282 million dispensed over five years) given to the APHL from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund the APHL’s Public Health Laboratory Workforce Pipeline Project. The aim of the project is to increase the number of qualified public health laboratory personnel by expanding training opportunities, building up the existing APHL-CDC Fellowship Program and launching a new internship program to enhance laboratory capacity now and in the future.

The COPH will use the money to cover tuition and provide a stipend to certain students enrolled in the college’s public health and clinical laboratory science and practice (LSP) DrPH program, said Dr. Jill Roberts, a COPH associate professor and LSP director.

Roberts said as many as 12 students could receive full tuition support in the first semester. To be eligible, students must:

• Work in a public health laboratory (including city, county, state, federal and veterinary public health labs)
• Be admitted to the public health and clinical laboratory science and practice track (track is excluded)
• Perform a bench-level doctoral research project in a public health laboratory 
• Commit to two years of employment in a public health laboratory post-graduation

In the last two years, three COPH students in the public health and clinical laboratory science and practice program have passed the national board examinations that are necessary to become a public health lab director. One of the most recent to pass is Dr. Denise Lopez, the public health laboratory manager at the Tulare County Public Health Laboratory in Tulare, Calif.

“It can be difficult to recruit and retain candidates that meet the stringent federal and state requirements to direct a public health laboratory,” said Lopez, whose lab provides testing to monitor and prevent high-consequence infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, pandemic viruses and agents of bioterrorism. “The DrPH laboratory science and practice program at USF allowed me to pursue a doctoral degree without disrupting my career. It provided a collaborative and dynamic learning environment to further my knowledge in public health laboratory science and helped prepare me to sit successfully for the required national board certification examinations. Now that I have completed the degree pathway and board certification, I plan to direct one or more public health laboratories in the San Joaquin Valley of California.”

“Public health laboratories led the response to COVID-19, providing much of the laboratory confirmatory testing for suspected positive cases,” Roberts added. “The labs also developed the initial tests used to confirm COVID. The DrPH laboratory science and practice program provides a pathway for laboratory personnel to obtain the knowledge and degree needed to sit for the national board examinations for laboratory directors. This is critical, as nationwide many of the current laboratory directors are retiring. Our program ensures that the laboratory leaders of tomorrow are trained, and this sub-award provides necessary funding needed for these talented and dedicated professions to acquire that training.”

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Vaidehi Persad, a USF College of Public Health undergraduate student recently took part in the prestigious University of Michigan Future Public Health Leaders Program (FPHLP).

The Michigan program is one of five public health summer programs under the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars (CUPS) Program. It’s a 10-week residential program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health designed to encourage underrepresented college students to consider careers in public health. 

The 2021 internship was held virtually, due to the pandemic.

“I heard about the internship through a Health Professions Advising email/flyer,” said Persad, who’s majoring in chemistry but minoring in public health and women and gender studies. “The public health scholars I collaborated with included public health students from across the country; internship alumni; University of Michigan School of Public Health faculty; public health professors/admin from other universities including Columbia University and the University of Chicago; local Michigan public health leaders (hospital staff/HHS/NGO coordinators); Indigenous leaders promoting public health; and CDC members.”

During the internship, Persad worked on everything from community health needs assessments, a community youth reading program, a sustainable living and environmental literacy initiative and a program that provided early childhood education materials to underrepresented minorities in the Detroit area.

Persad said one of the most valuable things the internship provided was a culturally conscious understanding of health equity.

“To begin with,” Persad commented, “the students in my cohort were a very diverse group of students. The educational material we received and were taught was from a culturally conscious view. And we were introduced to the concept of intersectionality. We learned about public health disparities faced particularly by the Arab and Black communities who are large in Detroit/Ann Arbor. We met with Native American leaders/tribal chiefs who spoke about public health challenges their community faced, including state-sanctioned negligence and violence they experienced on their reserves. I met with an NGO leader advocating for Latin American youth in Michigan and learned about gang intervention. As a cohort, we also explored and discussed topics like police brutality impacting BIPOC folks, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Asian Americans and the immigration barriers created by groups like ICE.” 

To others contemplating applying for the internship, Persad, who hopes to pursue an MPH after graduation, says do it. “And I would especially encourage minority students, who don’t have equitable access to professional development opportunities, to apply. This internship did an excellent job of making my peers and I feel like our backgrounds/identities/experiences/cultures are valuable.”

Persad said the internship gave her a greater sense—and appreciation for—the interdisciplinary aspect of public health. 

“The field of public health is huge, but it’s nonetheless a field where professionals have the agency to advocate for systemic change. This internship helped me come to love the centrality of ‘community wellness’ in public health.”

For more information about the Michigan FPHLP, click here.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every hour seven people in this country die a violent death. 

A violent death, as defined by the CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), is a death by homicide, suicide, legal intervention (excluding execution), a firearms unintentional death or a death with an undetermined intent and a link to violence.

To help stop violent deaths, researchers, law enforcement and policy makers need to determine the “why” behind these acts.

“Knowing the why allows for much more efficacious and tailored prevention programs,” noted Dr. Karen Liller, a USF College of Public Health professor and injury expert. “These are critical answers to know for injury prevention.”  

Details Matter

In 2018, Florida joined the NVDRS. According to its website, “The NVDRS is the only state-based surveillance reporting system that pools more than 600 unique data elements from multiple sources [law enforcement, coroners, toxicology reports and medical examiners, for example] into an anonymous database. 

When the state joined the NVDRS, it partnered with Liller and her team to extract and analyze data on violent deaths. 

Liller is the principal investigator for the state contract and is working with colleagues from the COPH, including Drs. Nicholas Thomas and Abraham Salinas Miranda, abstractors Jennifer Ramirez, Elizabeth Amoros, MPH student Alexis DiBlanda and doctoral students Kelli Agrawal and Rolando Trejos.

“We receive death certificates and medical examiner data from the state to match with the law enforcement data to paint fuller pictures of the deaths,” Liller said. “Through a secure portal, we submit these data to the CDC for the NVDRS, utilizing over 600 variables in a defined dataset. With this linked information, NVDRS is able to provide a more complete picture of the circumstances that contribute to violent deaths.”

Violent death in Florida

Liller and her team have found that the leading cause of violent death in the state is suicide, and that males have a higher injury rate than females. 

“Suicides have long been the most common type of violent death, even though many individuals think about homicides before suicides,” Liller said. “This could be because of the media and other attention given to homicides rather than suicides. And the reasons why males have higher injury rates, in general, than females could be due to gender roles, aggression, risk-taking behaviors, etc.”

Not just how, but why

Understanding the circumstances that surround these deaths is critical, said Liller. 

“For example, if we discover from our data that young Black males who have committed suicide in Florida have experienced life events such as a change in residence or a diagnosis of depression, then programs in schools and communities can begin to target those issues and address coping mechanisms. This can be a step toward a more tailored program and one that can be better evaluated for efficacy. The more we know, the more we become better agents of change so that violent deaths may decrease,” she said.

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Dr. Marissa Levine, a USF College of Public Health professor of public health practice, has been appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Center for Preparedness and Response (CPR) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

According to its website, the CPR is “America’s public health defense hub. The CPR provides expertise, funding, technical support and training to public health departments to help them prepare for health emergencies. The CPR works together with experts in immunization, environmental health, emerging diseases, occupational safety and health, injury prevention and control and others.”

As a scientific counselor, Levine, who also directs the college’s Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, will advise the nation’s top health leaders, including the director of the CDC and Secretary of Health and Human Services. She will also help conduct peer reviews of scientific programs, perform secondary reviews of scientific research proposals and monitor the CPR’s overall direction and focus.

“The Board of Scientific Counselors is designed to assist the center in using the latest science and translate evidence into effective public health emergency practice,” Levine noted. “Given that we are still in a pandemic and have much yet to do, let alone plan for the next public health emergency, this is a very important time for the CPR and this board. I am most excited about adding my voice to the deliberations with the hope that, even in some small way, I can assist the CPR in advancing its mission and performing its work for the betterment of all.”

Levine will serve a three-year term.

“I am thrilled to have been nominated and accepted for this role,” Levine, who was nominated by the former director of the CPR, added. “I had served this same board as a liaison officer when I was the Virginia State Health Commissioner. I felt honored to be a part of that esteemed group then, and I look forward to being an official voting member of the board now.”

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