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 […]
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 […]
Alumna Melissa Mercado was born, raised and initially trained (BS, MSc, MA) in Puerto Rico. She moved away to pursue her PhD at the USF College of Public Health. She currently lives in Atlanta. Mercado started her undergraduate training as a pre-med student at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), […]
The USF Health College of Public Health (COPH) Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program emphasizes advanced public health education and training designed to prepare individuals for leadership roles in practice-based settings. Traditionally, the program is taught through a hybrid format of primarily distance-learning courses and three, five day on-campus institutes, but COVID-19 […]
More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the University of South Florida claim that even if those deaths have been correctly measured, the number doesn’t fully convey the […]
Zika and COVID-19 may be wildly different in transmission, symptoms and outcomes, but according to USF College of Public Health (COPH) Associate Professor Dr. Jennifer Marshall, “for both diseases, widely available, early and accurate testing is critical for patient care, epidemiology and educating the public on their risk.” Marshall and […]
USF faculty members are finding palpable teaching opportunities to engage students while social distancing. Many have added the coronavirus to their syllabus, using real-life examples and online tools to meet educational requirements. “It’s disappointing to have the semester disrupted, but for the types of students that I am teaching, there […]
The USF College of Public Health (COPH) has been training students to become laboratory directors since 2017. The DrPH program in clinical laboratory science and practice program was implemented because of the emerging need for more laboratory directors in the United States. Clinical laboratories are vital to the country’s public […]