First published on June 1, 2015 in observance of the COPH’s 30^th anniversary celebration.

It was the evening of May 2.  There was a slight chill in the air as fans gathered in Traditions Hall anxiously awaiting the event of the century.

No, not the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight.  The other event ….

The USF College of Public Health’s Inaugural Alumni Awards Ceremony.

More than 180 supporters of the college traveled from as far as Indonesia to celebrate 28 Bulls with significant impact in public health.  From research to practice to policy to teaching, the awardees have done it all and are doing it exceedingly well.

COPH 2015 alumni awardees

The celebration began with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the ceremony.  The dynamic Dr. Joette Giovinco served as mistress of ceremony for the evening.  She’s the first physician to complete the COPH’s occupational medicine residency program, but is probably best known as Dr. Joe, the medical reporter for Fox News in Tampa.

Dr. Joe shared stories and relics from her days as a graduate student in 1988.  She even dusted off some vintage overhead sheets and her carousel replete with slides!

“We were so fortunate 30 years ago that visionary leaders like Sam Bell and Dr. Robert Hamlin believed that Florida deserved to have a school of public health and created the foundation for the first one in the state at the University of South Florida,” said Dr. Donna J. Petersen, COPH dean and senior associate vice president of USF Health.

“It is only fitting on the occasion of our 30^th anniversary that we recognize some of those alumni who, through their commitment to their profession, improve the health of communities around the world and reflect back so positively on our College of Public Health.”

Nominations were accepted through January.  A selection committee comprised of retired and current faculty, staff, alumni, students and community partners in public health had the arduous task of reviewing dozens of nomination packets.

Each alumni awardee received a stunning silver bull engraved with his or her name.

After dinner, Peggy Defay shared her experiences as a public health graduate student.

“As a first generation immigrant from Haiti,” she said, “higher education in any capacity is a priority for me.”

“I discovered my passion for public health through my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia.  Through this experience, I gained a better understanding of health issues at the grassroots level.  Being a volunteer in the Peace Corps helped me understand some of my weaknesses and the need to continue training in this field.”

“The past seven years have taken me to various corners of the world where I have been privileged to meet, live and be empowered by many people.  The last two years at the University of South Florida are no exception to that.  And, I can now say that I have once again lived and worked among amazing people!”

Then, it was time for the main event—presentation of the COPH Class of 2015 alumni awardees.  Each alumni award recipient was recognized during the ceremony, and all are listed here.  A few of their stories are included for those who weren’t present to hear them all on May 2.

Tabia Henry Akintobi, PhD, MPH
Director, Prevention Research Center
Director, Evaluation and Institutional Assessment
Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Associate Dean, Community Health
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Ga.

“As a graduate student, I had the opportunity not just to learn how to conduct research, but how to lead it in partnership with experts who cared,” Dr. Tabia Akintobi said.  “They recognized the importance of students as significant contributors to their research as reflected in the number of co-authored papers and abstracts I had under my belt prior to graduation.”

“Among the wonderful colleagues, mentors and leaders I met during my tenure was the love of my life, professional confidante and partner in good Dr. Adebayo Akindele Akintobi [former student and husband].”

Abdel A. Alli, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Ga.

Philip T. Amuso, PhD, MS
Consultant
Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Retired Director
Bureau of Laboratories
Florida Department of Health
Tampa, Fla.

Roy W. Beck, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Jaeb Center for Health Research
Tampa, Fla.

Sherri Berger, MSPH
Chief Operating Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Ga.

“My undergraduate degree was in political science, and I didn’t know exactly what to do with it after graduation,” Sherri Berger said.

Sherri Berger and son Jacob.

“Listening to my mother’s advice to ‘get more education,’ I did what other college kids do, and I followed my boyfriend to Tampa, where he had a job offer.  I was hoping to get a master’s degree in hospital administration.  However, in my first semester at the COPH, I fell in love with epidemiology.”

Arlene Calvo, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor
Depts. of Community and Family Health & Global Health
USF College of Public Health
City of Knowledge, Panama

James R. Chastain, Jr., PhD, PE, MPH
President
Chastain-Skillman, Inc.
Tampa, Fla.

“Having an undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, I found public health a perfect complement to that training,” Dr. James Chastain said.  “While engineering is much more design and nuts-and-bolts execution-oriented, public health was more about the personal impacts and generally a systems-oriented and advocacy approach.  There certainly was a great overlap, but even the way that I had to study was different.  Public health provided fresh perspectives to design problems, and I enjoyed expanding my horizons with my studies.  In a word, public health tended to address the “why” questions, and engineering focused on the “how” questions.  I’ve found that very helpful in my practice.”

The Chastain Family celebrated James accomplishments. James is pictured far left.

“The COPH also was quite progressive at the time in terms of scheduling courses that allowed working professionals to take the courses while working at the same time.”

Chastain managed a company and family with three children while earning his degree.

“The time pressures were intense,” he said, “and would not have been possible without a very understanding and supportive wife.”

Stephen R. Cole, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, N.C.

Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Professor of Medicine
Director of the Institute for Minority Health Research
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Hanifa M. Denny, PhD, MPH, BSPH
Dean
College of Public Health
Diponegoro University
Semarang, Indonesia

“One day, we were brought to new [medical] student orientation session.  After touring a hospital ward, I was not able to eat or sleep for some days due to seeing a diabetic patient with a severe wound,” Dr. Hanifa Denny recalled.

“I asked one professor if there is a program within the college of medicine without a requirement to visit patients in a hospital ward.  I also said that I wanted to help people to live in a healthy lifestyle without necessarily suffering from sickness.  I wanted to make people healthy and able to work without a fear of being sick.  The professor explained public health and how the science would meet my expectation.  After my second year of college, I fell in love with occupational and environmental health.”

Scott Dotson, PhD, MSC, CIH
Lead Health Scientist – Senior Team Coordinator
Education and Information Division
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cincinnati, Ohio

Anthony Escobio, MPH, FHFMA, CHAM
Vice President
Patient Financial Services
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Fla.

“I wanted to be an MD.  I took a few of the pre-med “weed out” courses as an undergraduate and did not do very well,” Anthony Escobio recalled. “I had an entry-level job at St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1990, and this is where I learned that there were many more opportunities in health care that did not involve practicing medicine.”

The Escobios couldn’t be more proud of Anthony (back row, second from right).

One of the more “interesting” events from Escobio’s COPH days involves a class with Dr. Alan Sear.

“I left a management position at University Community Hospital to be a senior analyst at Tampa General Hospital,” Escobio said.  “TGH was having a host of financial challenges at the time, and the leadership was being ridiculed in the press on a weekly basis.  One of my professors, Alan Sear, spent an entire lecture discussing the poor decisions that leadership at TGH was making.  I sat slouched in my chair knowing that I had just taken a job to be an analyst for these very leaders.  All I could think to myself was ‘what have I done?’  Little did I know that I would be at the center of one of the biggest hospital turnarounds in the country for this period of time.”

Ligia María Cruz Espinoza, MD, PhD, MPH
Associate Research Scientist
International Vaccine Institute
Leon, Nicaragua

Kathryn J. Gillette, MHA, FACHE
Market President and Chief Operating Officer
Bayfront Health-St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Fla.

Jan J. Gorrie, JD, MPH
Managing Partner
Ballard Partners
Tampa, Fla.

Richard T. Hartman, PhD, MS, CSP, CIH
Chief Health Strategist
PSI Inc.
Alexandria, Va.

Xiomara Zulay Hewitt, MPH
Director
Infection Prevention and Control
Adventist Health System
Altamonte Springs, Fla.

Winifred M. Holland, MPH, MA, LMHC
Administrator-Health Officer
Florida Department of Health in Clay County
Green Cove Springs, Fla.

Carol Ann Jenkins, MPH, FACHE
Director, Accreditation and Survey Readiness
All Children’s Hospital Inc.
St. Petersburg, Fla.

Claudia X. Aguado Loi, PhD, MPH, CHES
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Community and Family Health
USF College of Public Health
Tampa, Fla.

Christine McGuire-Wolfe, PhD, MPH, CPH
Firefighter/Paramedic and Infection Control Officer
Pasco County Fire Rescue

Adjunct Faculty
Department of Global Health
USF College of Public Health
Tampa, Fla.

Maj. (Dr.) James McKnight
Force Health Protection Officer
U.S. Central Command
Serving in Jordan

Maj. James McKnight’s children accepted his award since he is serving in Jordan.

Rachel Nuzum, MPH
Vice President
Federal and State Health Policy
The Commonwealth Fund
Washington, D.C.

Claudine M. Samanic, PhD, MSPH
Commander
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

Environmental Health Scientist
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Research Region 5
Division of Community Health Investigations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chicago, Ill.

“Since 1999, when I graduated, I’ve been impressed with the expansion and creation of new institutes and centers, the college’s increasing role in global health, and announcements of various faculty accomplishments and impact,” said Dr. Claudine Samanic.  “It was humbling to be in the room with so many accomplished fellow COPH alumni.”

Angelia Sanders, MPH
Associate Director
Trachoma Control Program
The Carter Center
Atlanta, Ga.

Natalia Vargas, MPH
Public Health Analyst
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, Md.

Angelica C. Williams, MPH
Disease Intervention Specialist
Florida Department of Health in Broward County
Pembroke Pines, Fla.

Lauren B. Zapata, PhD, MSPH
Commander
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

Senior Research Scientist
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Ga.

COPH Deans, from left: Drs. Peter Levin, Donna Petersen (current) and Charles Mahan.

Without question, the night was all about the alumni awardees, but there were a few other show-stoppers in the room. Namely, COPH Deans Drs. Peter Levin, Donna Petersen, and Charles Mahan (above) and COPH alumnus and USF Board Trustee Scott Hopes (below left).

USF Trustee Scott Hopes (on left) with Lesley and Rick Bateman.  Lesley was the college’s first public affairs and development officer.

Founded in July 1984, the USF College of Public Health is wrapping up a yearlong celebration of educating and training public health professionals.  Some of the 30^th anniversary year highlights include

• regional events in Orlando, New Orleans, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
• the Dean’s Lecture Series featuring alumni like Drs. Richard Hartman, Charlan Kroelinger and Hana Osman.
• community building activities like a tailgate and USF football game, fall networking social during homecoming, Super Bowl party and spring BBQ.
• Team #USFCOPHRocks with more than 50 public health Bulls participating in the Gasparilla Distance Classic.
• raising almost $70,000 in new commitments to student scholarships in the college.

“We are proud of the work we have done building on a solid foundation and creating an outstanding school of public health—one that just recently jumped in national rankings from 21 to 16,” Petersen said.  “In addition to our great champions and the consistent high performance of our faculty and staff, the reputation we have earned is due in no small measure to the incredible contributions of our alumni.”

The alumni awards ceremony was made possible with support from the COPH, as well as corporate sponsors USF Health and Bayfront Health-St. Petersburg, and individual sponsors Drs. Jay Wolfson and Phillip and Jean Amuso.

It takes a village to raise a family AND host an amazing alumni awards ceremony.  Salute!

Alumni awardee Dr. Abdel A. Alli (second from right) enjoyed the festivities with his family, as well as nominator and faculty mentor Dr. Donna Haiduven (center) and her husband, Michael Gronquist (far right).

Alumni awardee Dr. Arlene Calvo shares a special moment with fellow alumnus Dr. Clement Gwede.

Go, Bulls!

“I applaud the College of Public Health for recognizing alumni who not only have tremendous accomplishments, but who have made a difference in the lives of so many,” said Bill McCausland, executive director of the USF Alumni Association.

Story by Natalie D. Preston, College of Public Health.  Photos by Ashley Grant and Humberto Lopez Castillo.

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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.

Story by Donna Campisano, USF College of Public Health

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A team led by USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe, assistant professor and COPH PhD alumna, has been awarded a seed research grant from the USF Women’s Health Collaborative (WHC).

The goal of the WHC is to support interdisciplinary research projects aimed at advancing women’s health.

McGuire-Wolfe has been awarded $10,000 to use toward her research titled, “Intentions, Barriers, and Supports for Women at All Stages of Childbearing in High Demand Professions.”

Funding was granted in September 2021 and efforts are currently underway, according to McGuire-Wolfe.

“High-demand professions, such as obstetrics, surgery, emergency medicine, firefighting and law enforcement entail safety risks, long hours, high-stakes decision-making, physical demands and emotional impact,” she said.

She and her research team aim to document the experiences of women working in high-demand professions and examine the organizational, cultural and structural “drivers of maternal stressors” in these environments.

They will examine work-life balance during pregnancy and the post-partum period; impact of maternal discrimination; and policies contributing to work-family conflicts for mothers in the workplace.

The interdisciplinary research team includes:

• Christine McGuire-Wolfe, PhD, Principal Investigator – COPH Global and Planetary Health
• Jennifer Marshall, PhD, Co-Investigator – COPH Interdisciplinary Research, Sunshine ERC
• Amber Mehmood, PhD, Co-Investigator – COPH Global and Planetary Health
• Sarah Običan, MD, Co-Investigator – MCOM Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Tammy Allen, PhD, Co-Investigator – CAS Organizational Psychology
• Russell Kirby, PhD – COPH Population Health Science
• Nancy Romero-Daza, PhD – CAS Anthropology
• Bryanna Fox, PhD – CAS Criminology
• Elizabeth Dunn, MPH – COPH

“Receipt of this grant supports development of an interdisciplinary team to explore issues encountered by mothers (or future mothers) in high demand professions. High rates of worker burn-out, decreases in new professionals entering these occupations and specialties, and low retention rates have led to work force shortages. An understanding of the challenges and supports that exist in these work environments helps to inform efforts to implement a Total Worker Health^® approach and bolster the number of professionals employed in these occupations,” McGuire-Wolfe said. 

She also said the findings will inform organizational policy and practice recommendations, with dissemination via webinar, conference presentation and publication.

“Funding from the Women’s Health Collaborative Seed Grant allows the team to build on information obtained from a needs assessment conducted with supervisors, administrators and policy stakeholders,” she said.

This initial phase is currently underway and is funded by a Pilot Project Research Training (PPRT) award through the Sunshine Education and Research Center (SERC), according to McGuire-Wolfe.

“The funding has increased research opportunities for students, as three MPH students (Pelumi Olaore, Shari-Jade Pitter and Isabel Montes) and one undergraduate student (Neha Dantuluri) are currently collaborating with the team,” she said.

To support women’s health research through the USF Women’s Health Collaborative, visit usf.to/whc.

Story by Anna Mayor, USF College of Public Health

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Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) assistant professor and alum, has joined the Public Policy Committee of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). 

“Being a part of this committee allows me to cultivate an awareness of developing issues in infection control and to pass this knowledge on to my students,” said McGuire-Wolfe, who received both her PhD and MPH from the college. 

According to its website, the APIC’s mission is to create a safer world through the prevention of infection. It is the leading professional association for infection preventionists (IPs) with more than 15,000 members, most of whom are health care providers, public health professionals, epidemiologists and medical technologists. 

The group’s Public Policy Committee “monitors, analyzes and provides input into legislation in the U.S. Congress and in state legislatures that ensures legislators and regulators have the best information to help them develop policies that create a safer world through the prevention of infection,” says the APIC website. Some of their advocacy projects include supporting antibiotic stewardship, mandatory flu vaccinations for healthcare workers and evidence-based practices of social distancing and masking to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

“Participation in this committee requires field experience about the realities and challenges of practicing as an infection preventionist. It also requires knowledge about infection-control related public health issues,” said McGuire-Wolfe, who, in addition to her COPH duties, has worked as an emergency responder and infection control officer with Pasco County Fire Rescue (PCFR) for nearly two decades. “Thirdly, it requires solid writing skills as the committee comments on regulatory and legislative initiatives and provides talking points to stakeholders regarding issues of importance to infection control and prevention. This is a great outreach opportunity for me, as well as an opportunity to represent the online infection control program at the USF COPH.”

McGuire-Wolfe’s term, which began in January 2021, will extend for three years.

Story by Donna Campisano, USF College of Public Health

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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 over many years to have been joined by outstanding scholars and professionals who have chosen to make the COPH their home. But from every beginning comes an end and it is with mixed emotions that I share that three of our faculty have chosen to retire at the end of this calendar year,” said Dean Donna Petersen.

Dr. Barbara Orban, who tirelessly built and rebuilt the master’s of health administration program, led the former Department of Health Policy and Management for many years, engaged in cutting-edge research that informed important policy and mentored countless young faculty and students.  

Orban received her education for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), earning her BS in 1976, MSPH in 1980 and PhD in 1987.

She has more than 30 years of professional experience in health policy and management. This includes 12 years in hospital management at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif. and Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., where responsibilities included quality management, accreditation and licensing, medical staff affairs, and strategic and business planning.

Orban was also a faculty member in Health Services Administration at the University of Florida from 1985 to 1997, where she served terms as department chair and program director of the nationally ranked graduate program in health and hospital administration. She joined the University of South Florida in 1997.

Her research primarily focused on emergency medical and trauma systems, quality improvement interventions, managed care, and hospital financial performance. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Florida Department of Health, and is published in journals such as Medical Care, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Healthcare Management and Journal of Trauma.

“Dr. Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano has been a major force in our epidemiology programs teaching courses at the graduate level in methods and in infectious disease, and at the undergraduate level introducing young minds to the wonders of epidemiology, led our faculty assembly during perhaps the most transformative moments in our history, and mentored countless students,” Petersen said.

Sanchez-Anguiano received her MD from the Mexican Autonomous National University, Mexico City, with two specialties: occupational medicine and field epidemiology. She earned her PhD in epidemiology from the USF COPH.

During her practical training as an epidemiologist, she served at the Ministry of Health in Mexico City, Mexico, which offered the official national training of epidemiologists in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She participated in the study and control of outbreaks of infectious and acute diseases all around the country.

Starting in 1976, Sanchez-Anguiano served as a medical doctor in specialization training at the Mexican Social Security Institute. In 1983 she became the medical sub- director with the Ministry of Labor for the Medicine and Industrial Safety Management Department and was responsible for technical consultation for the Mexican government at the national level.

Sanchez-Anguiano said that she arrived at the COPH in 1992 as a PhD student.

“I wanted to expand my knowledge in epidemiology to serve the community. As a physician, you help one person at a time, and I wanted to go to the population. I had done it as a field epidemiologist, but I wanted to learn more,” she said. “Life has many intricacies and when I graduated, I was offered to work for the J.A. Haley Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, as an epidemiologist and as a research assistant professor at the COPH. I decided to accept the offers and opened a new chapter in my professional career.”

In 2003, she was offered to work full-time at the COPH as an assistant professor and in 2012 she was promoted to associate professor.

At the college she taught courses in the epidemiology of infectious diseases and diseases of major public health importance, and co-taught core epidemiology courses. Since 2008, she has been a regular National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health grant reviewer utilizing her combined training in occupational medicine and epidemiology.

During her time at the COPH, Sanchez said that she’s most proud of three specific things.

“One is teaching epidemiology, it’s one of the basic stones of public health to several young generations of students coming to the COPH. Second, was being president of the Faculty Assembly and having helped to transform and renovate the structure of the college organization to what it is today. Lastly, very personal, but I became an American Citizen!” she said.

Sanchez said that some of her favorite memories at the COPH were the day of her doctoral defense, all of the meetings where she got to know everyone better and the social gatherings for the holidays.

“I’m going to miss the people: my colleagues and our collegiality, our wonderful staff and their kind personal behavior; and the students with all their energy.”

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Dr. Kate Wolfe-Quintero joined the COPH in 2011 to help tackle the persistent problem of graduates not having sufficient skills in written communication. She ended up serving in a variety of leadership positions in the COPH’s academic affairs and student affairs areas, as well as the DrPH program.

“She has, without question, elevated the writing skills of our students not to mention the grading skills of our doctoral students,” said Petersen.

Wolfe-Quintero received her BA from Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Mich. in 1982, her MA from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. in 1986 and her PhD from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

Wolfe-Quintero was a national resource fellow in African studies at Michigan State University from 1983-1986. For 17 years, she was the director of four academic programs for international students, at the University of Hawaii and then at the University of South Florida.

Prior to joining the COPH, Wolfe-Quintero was an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of South Carolina and an associate professor of second language studies at the University of Hawaii. In 2006, she came to USF as the faculty director of the English Language Institute in the Department of World Languages. From 2009-2010, she was vice president for Advocacy for the American Association of Intensive English Programs.

In 2011, she joined the COPH as an associate professor and director of professional communication. While at the COPH, Wolfe-Quintero provides courses and workshops designed to meet the scientific and professional communication needs of faculty, students and staff. Since 2015, she provided administrative support for the DrPH program, in which she taught courses on scientific writing and innovative education.

“All three of these individuals leave indelible marks on our college as they pursuit different avenues on their life journeys. Each has also expressed to me that while “it was time,” the timing helps the college at a difficult period. As has always been true of these three faculty members, their capacity for giving has no limits,” Petersen said.

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After 14 years of service with the USF COPH, Mary Johnson retired as the college receptionist. She will be moving closer to her family.

Johnson moved from Manchester, N.H. to Tampa, Fla. in March of 2003 and began working at the University of South Florida on May 21, 2003 on what was supposed to be a temporary three-week assignment.

“Well, my three weeks will finally end on January 7, 2021, after more than 17 years!” said Johnson.

“During her time with us, Ms. Mary has welcomed friends and strangers alike, creating a warm family feel to our college,” said Jay Evans, senior associate dean and chief operating officer of the COPH. “I for one will miss seeing her each morning as I come into the college, and I am quite confident that feeling is shared by many.”

Many COPH alumni also shared their sentiments of Johnson.

“Mary’s presence will be missed,” said COPH alumna Candace Webb. “She was always so warm and inviting. Congratulations to her on her retirement!”

“All four years at USF and her smile always welcomed me even on my hardest days. I’m so excited for her!” alum Justin Ross said.

“Sweet Mary,” alumna Dr. Connie Mizak said. “She was always giving kind greetings as I entered the COPH building. Wishing her a wonderful retirement!”

“I have enjoyed working for the COPH over the years. I will miss seeing all the smiling faces coming through the front door. I could have never imagined all the love and support you have all shown me throughout my work,” Johnson said. “Life is a journey, and we have to keep moving forward. Thank you for being such an amazing part of my journey. You will all never be forgotten.”

The COPH this year has also said hello to a few new and a few familiar faces.

New faculty include:

Dr. Edwin Michael, professor of epidemiology, population biology, and computational disease dynamics

Earlier this year, Dr. Edwin Michael joined USF from the University of Notre Dame an epidemiologist studying the spread and control of global infectious diseases.

The overriding objective of his research is to address questions regarding the population ecology, epidemiology, dynamics and control of tropical vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, including lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, dengue and malaria, enteric diseases and more recently epidemic diseases, such as SARS-Cov-2/Covid-19.

A common theme running across his research is a primary focus on the development and implementation of novel analytical and computational approaches for providing a deeper understanding of the determinants, pathways and dynamics of disease transmission in endemic communities and using the insights gained for identifying and analyzing sustainable approaches to disease control.

Michael also studies the influence of global climate change on vector and environmentally mediated infectious disease transmission, as well as the increasingly important public health topic of the epidemiology of chronic and infectious disease co-occurrence and morbidity in developing populations.

Currently, he leads the development of the SEIRcast COVID-19 modelling portal for supporting population-level response and hospital surge planning to contain the pandemic at the county level.

Dr. Chengqi “Charley” Wang, research assistant professor of genomics

As a data scientist, Chengqi Wang has worked in multi-omics analysis for more than ten years.

During his PhD training, he successfully developed five algorithms in protein structure, function prediction, and drug target inference. In his postdoc research, Wang continued to develop algorithms to annotate the epigenetic regulatory element in the mammalian genome and collaborate with clinicians to study thrombotic diseases.

In collaboration with the researchers from USF Genomics program, he has published many papers, including the mechanism of parasite transmission and the essential genome annotation in the malaria parasite.

Wang’s current research focuses on understanding how the biological systems that underlie healthy life and disease react to variations in their makeup of their environment.

He employs statistical inference, numerical optimization and machine learning to discover patterns in large datasets to ultimately address questions in genomics and molecular medicine.

Dr. Christine McGuire Wolfe, teaching assistant professor with the infection control program

Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe, who earned her PhD in public health with a concentration in global communicable disease from the USF College of Public Health (COPH), retired from the Pasco County Fire Rescue in August and has now joined the COPH as an assistant professor.

During her career with the PCFR, McGuire-Wolfe designed and expanded infection control efforts to protect the health and safety of paramedics and EMTs actively engaged in providing patient care.

“In the beginning, crew members tended to be skeptical about the benefits of participating in screening and vaccination programs and reporting work-place exposures,” she said. “As the program’s credibility grew, crews respected the recommendations issued and participation rates increased exponentially.”

McGuire-Wolfe helped to successfully mitigate two large potential outbreaks using what she said were, “common public health approaches that were unusually proactive for the fire service.”

She became known throughout PCFR for her efforts advocating to improve firefighter health and safety, something she said she will always be proud of.

Read McGuire Wolfe’s full story here.

Dr. Chighaf Bakour, assistant professor of epidemiology

Teaching at the COPH the past three years, Dr. Chighaf Bakour begins a new appointment as a teaching assistant professor of epidemiology. 

“My role includes teaching epidemiology courses, mentoring students, serving as the faculty lead for the MPH and MSPH in epidemiology concentrations, conducting research, and engaging in various service activities,” she said.

Bakour is an alumna of USF COPH, earning her PhD in public health-epidemiology in 2016. She also has a MD from Damascus University and an MPH from Independence University in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“The most interesting thing about public health is that it is concerned with the health of the population, not just individuals, therefore any intervention applied at the population level can have a significant impact on a large number of people,” she said. “I like to research and find risk factors for negative health outcomes, which we can then target with appropriate interventions to prevent or mitigate these outcomes.”

Bakour said she plans to continue her research related to adverse childhood experiences, sleep and chronic health conditions. She also plans to continue working on updating her courses, creating new courses and helping to grow and improve the MPH and MSPH in epidemiology programs.

Dr. Ryan McMinds, research assistant professor with the genomics program

At the COPH, Dr. Ryan McMinds will be a bioinformatician, with half of his time spent with the USF Genomics Program and his other in the Department of Integrative Biology with the USF College of Arts and Sciences.

“I’ll be focusing on collaborations with faculty who want to add a ‘microbiome’ component to their research,” he said.

McMinds earned his PhD in microbiology at Oregon State University in 2018, where he conducted the Global Coral Microbiome Project, studying the distribution and evolution of coral-associated bacteria.

“My interest in public health is at the nexus with our environment,” he said. “Understanding how the microbiome contributes to healthy ecosystems lends insight into its contribution to human well-being in numerous direct and indirect ways.”

McMinds plans to develop collaborations within and outside of COPH that help connect diverse disciplines and departments.

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New staff include Kristina Svatos as a statistical data Analyst with Dr. Linda Detman. Dr. John Adams will also be welcoming two new postdoctoral students, Drs. Surendra Kumar Kolli and Pradeep Subramani.

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As an emergency responder and infection control officer with Pasco County Fire Rescue (PCFR) for the past 17 years, Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe said she will always keep certain calls close to her heart.

“You interact with people on their worst days and also see the best of humanity in action,” she said.  

McGuire-Wolfe, who earned her PhD in public health with a concentration in global communicable disease from the USF College of Public Health (COPH), retired from PCFR in August and has now joined the COPH as an assistant professor.

Upon her retirement, PCFR awarded her the distinguished service award—their highest commendation awarded to employees who retire in good standing and who served with exemplary and honorable service.

“​It really was unexpected—administration had blocked my calendar for the awards ceremony as a ‘transition meeting’ to reassign my job duties,” she said. “Over the years, mentors that I respected the most retired and received this award, so it is an honor that my command staff chose to confer it to me.”

During her career with the PCFR, McGuire-Wolfe designed and expanded infection control efforts to protect the health and safety of paramedics and EMTs actively engaged in providing patient care.

“In the beginning, crew members tended to be skeptical about the benefits of participating in screening and vaccination programs and reporting work-place exposures,” she said. “As the program’s credibility grew, crews respected the recommendations issued and participation rates increased exponentially.”

McGuire-Wolfe helped to successfully mitigate two large potential outbreaks using what she said were, “common public health approaches that were unusually proactive for the fire service.”

The first of those was addressing an intrusion of bats in the dorm rooms of a fire station and the need for rabies prophylaxis for the crew members that had slept in those rooms; the other halting the spread of Hepatitis A—which began with one firefighter unknowingly working several shifts with Hepatitis A, exposing a total of 101 firefighters.

“Approximately 80 percent of these firefighters were previously unvaccinated for Hep A and required timely post-exposure vaccination,” she said. “In addition, several symptomatic firefighters were screened for the virus and station disinfection protocols were implemented.”

She became known throughout PCFR for her efforts advocating to improve firefighter health and safety, something she said she will always be proud of.

“​The professions of firefighting and emergency medical services, as well as Pasco County Fire Rescue, have made significant gains toward incorporating a culture of safety in the workplace, but there are still critical pieces in this approach that need to be strengthened, including infection control,” she said. “Healthy firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs more effectively serve their communities.”

She said the safety of the workers is something that is even more so important during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Emergency responders who have access to appropriate personal protective equipment in sufficient quantities are less stressed about providing patient care in the midst of a pandemic,” she said. “To the citizenry and to the fire service and EMS, COVID-19 has demonstrated the need for prevention and the potential for widespread consequences when preventative measures are not implemented appropriately. Efficient infection control practices for crews and on ambulances ensures that emergency response crews are not, unintentionally, transmitting COVID-19 within the community.”

McGuire-Wolfe, who originally joined the COPH in 2013 as an adjunct faculty member, moved into an assistant professor role in 2020.

“​I am grateful to be part of the thriving infection control program at COPH and look forward to incorporating real-world examples of infection control dilemmas, interventions, and successes into the classes that I teach,” she said.

Story by Anna Mayor, USF College of Public Health

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May is Hepatitis Awareness Month

New cases of hepatitis A continue to rise across Tampa Bay, according to USF College of Public Health alumna Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe, with Pasco County ranking second in the state with overall number of cases.

She works on the frontline of infection control at the Pasco County Fire Rescue as an infection control officer where she puts her PhD in public health communicable diseases to practice.

In February, the department said they received notice from the Florida Department of Health that a firefighter was hospitalized due to complications from hepatitis A infection. It was determined that the ill firefighter has been infectious for a specific 14-day time-frame while reporting for duty and completing paramedic clinicals at three fire stations.

McGuire-Wolfe, who is also an assistant professor of infection control at the COPH, worked closely with the local health department to identify possible contacts and plan a response.

“Hepatitis A is spread through the fecal oral route,” she said. “It’s not large amount of fecal material, it’s microscopic amounts. So, it could be passed on if it’s on an inanimate object and someone passes it along and gets that on their hands somehow that gets into their mouth.  The large outbreaks we hear about from the media usually involve an infected food service worker who contaminates food that is served to multiple people.”

Hepatitis A virus is a highly contagious liver infection causing symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fatigue, low appetite, fever, dark urine, jaundice, diarrhea, and joint pain. 

For firefighters, McGuire-Wolfe says, risk of contracting hepatitis A from an infected co-worker  is higher than typical work settings due to close living quarters.

“They work in a dormitory settings, they cook food together, it’s sort of like family communal living; they share bathrooms and clean the bathrooms that people use,” she said.

According to the Pasco County Fire Rescue Department, because the infected firefighter wore gloves during all patient contact, it was not felt that any patients were at risk of contracting hepatitis A.

“When we have an outbreak or potential outbreak that’s when all my background and knowledge from USF comes in to play in the real world, the things we talk about in textbook fashion play out in real life,” she said.

For the department, 101 potential employee exposures were identified, with 28 of those individuals already vaccinated against hepatitis A.

Pasco County Fire Rescue said that all of the remaining 73 exposures received post-exposure hepatitis A vaccination. Prior to this event, the department offered the hepatitis A vaccine to all field personnel as part of a voluntary infection control program.

The department also positioned disinfectant sprayers from the Clorox Corporation at all three affected stations so that crews could disinfect the station regularly.  These efforts to contain the incident appear to have been successful, as no secondary cases were identified.

McGuire-Wolfe stressed that two ways to combat hepatitis A are through vaccination and proper handwashing.

“There is an effective two-dose vaccine,” she said. “Once people are vaccinated, they are protected from getting it. The second most important thing is handwashing. If I get hepatitis A it’s not necessarily because I didn’t wash my hands, it could be because someone preparing my food didn’t. Whether or not you’re practicing effective hand washing can actually impact the rest of the community around you.”

According to Pasco County Fire Rescue, a 100 percent vaccination coverage rate for exposed employees has been achieved and they are “confident that our response provided the best opportunity to confine the illness to the initial employee.”

McGuire-Wolfe earned her PhD in communicable diseases in 2012 and a graduate certificate in infection control in 2010. Prior to that, she earned her master’s degree in maternal and child health also from the COPH and bachelor’s degree in chemistry and psychology from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. She started volunteering with the Pasco County Fire Rescue Department before moving into a permanent position in 2003.

“My passion is finding that connection between emergency responders and issues related to infection control and public health overall,” McGuire-Wolfe said. “Creating that niche where we’re applying things we know in terms of public health and infection control to a setting where we don’t normally see it.”

She also teaches the cornerstone undergraduate course for the undergraduate minor in infection control at the COPH and saw a need for a more comprehensive but understandable textbook to share with her students. She’s taken her practical experience and knowledge of infection control and prevention and shared it in Foundations of Infection Control and Prevention, published by Jones and Bartlett Learning.

“I was looking at potential textbooks for the class and they were either too simplified or they were super expensive and too filled with jargon that undergrads not working in health care wouldn’t understand,” she said.

While she’s seen her fair share of occupational exposure cases, from bacterial meningitis to scabies, she said she’s already witnessing a culture of change toward infection control in her field.

“More and more in the fire service we’re trying to focus on the prevention,” McGuire-Wolfe said.  “Historically, the fire service was sort of reactionary, we didn’t do vaccinations or screenings-things are starting to change toward a culture a safety where we’re trying to do things proactively and public health fits perfectly in those initiatives.”

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COPH Alumni Fun Four:

What did you dream of becoming when you were young?

A teacher for the deaf.

Where would we find you on the weekend?

At the soccer field, both of my sons play competitive soccer and it’s started to consume our lives over the weekend!

What is the last book you read? 

Special project papers from my students!

What superpower would you like to have?

Ability to teleport from one place to another.

Story by Anna Mayor, USF College of Public Health

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As the current infection control officer for Pasco County Fire Rescue, USF College of Public Health alumna Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe has seen her fair share of occupational exposure cases.

“It’s hard to convince people who are running into burning buildings that catching Hepatitis C is a risk, because the risk that’s right in their face is fire-related—something is going to fall on you or burn up and you’re going to get trapped and I’m over in the corner telling them ‘you need your Hepatitis C screening,’ so it can be a challenge sometimes,” she said.

Dr. Christine McGuire-Wolfe is an alumna of the COPH, earning her PhD in communicable diseases from the Department of Global Health and a graduate certificate in infection control in 2012. (Photo courtesy of McGuire-Wolfe)

McGuire-Wolfe is an adjunct faculty member in the infection control program in the Department of Global Health. She teaches the cornerstone undergraduate course for the undergraduate minor in infection control and saw a need for a more comprehensive but understandable textbook to share with her students.

“I was looking at potential textbooks for the class and they were either too simplified or they were super expensive and too filled with jargon that undergrads not working in health care would understand,” she said.

Now, she’s taken her practical experience and knowledge of infection control and prevention and shared it in Foundations of Infection Control and Prevention, published by Jones and Bartlett Learning.

According to McGuire-Wolfe, the book contains a foundation of critical concepts in infection control for those with no prior exposure to medical terminology, offering hands-on, practice examples of specific pathogens, avoiding technical jargon, while not compromising comprehensiveness.

“We tried to tie in a lot of practical scenarios,” she said. “Each chapter has some practical situations where it’s applied, so it’s not just rote memorization of facts, there is some application piece to it as well.”

Each chapter discusses a specific pathogen for the reader to gain knowledge of common diseases in the developed world and serves as a useful took for studying for the Certification in Infection Prevention and Control (CIC^®) examination administered by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology.

According to McGuire-Wolfe, professionals in the field of infection control are reaching retirement, so there is an increasing need to train new professionals.

“Antimicrobial resistance and health care related infections are growing astronomically,” she said.

As a professional working on the front line of infection control, she’s able to bring real life examples to her class in addition to examples highlighted in the textbook.

“I’ve been unusually busy with exposures at the fire department lately, so I’ve been able to bring in examples of live exposures, such as bacterial meningitis,” she said. “At the beginning of the class they are also getting a little clip of real life, so it’s more applicable for them.”

The book is available at Shimberg Health Sciences Library at USF Health and other major retailers including Amazon.com.

Story by Anna Mayor, USF College of Public Health

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As interdisciplinary as public health is by nature, Christine McGuire-Wolfe, adjunct faculty in the Department of Global Health, may be adding a new twist that has led to a novel study.

McGuire-Wolfe became a volunteer firefighter while she was studying for her MPH. She became a paid career firefighter with Pasco County Fire-Rescue in 2003. Working part-time while finishing her public health PhD, she graduated in 2013 and remains at PCFR in the department’s special projects sector, where she soon will return to full-time status.

Christine McGuire-Wolfe, PhD, MPH

“I do infection control for the whole department,” she explained, “so for example, if someone out on a call gets stuck with a needle from a patient, there’s a whole set of follow-up and testing, screening, and moving forward with immunizations.”

Applying public health’s prevention mindset was only natural for McGuire-Wolfe, and that meant some research was in order. How much were risky behaviors with sharp objects – or “sharps” in fire-rescue vernacular – contributing to responder injuries?

“Part of the issue is that there’s a huge under-reporting,” she said, noting that estimates put unreported needle-sticks at 50-60 percent. “The fire department’s not military, but it’s para-military. There are disciplinary referrals, so there can be a fear of consequences if they report, or there’s the paperwork hassle.

“One of the other challenges is their immunizations. When we had H1-N1, how are you going to respond to that? If you’re the emergency responder, who’s looking out for you and your well-being? Is it getting an appropriate response and priority?

“Sometimes, departments are very good about that, especially the bigger ones. Some of the medium and smaller departments don’t have the same access to resources. They don’t always have delineated infection control or exposure response plans.”

PCFR is a medium-sized department, she said. Additionally, county governments in the state of Florida are exempt from federal OSHA regulations. Since there is no similar agency on the state level, each county is left to draft and enforce its own safety policies and regulations, only underscoring the need for investigating sharps injury causes and prevalence.

The resultant study of risky behaviors was unfunded, McGuire-Wolfe said, but a former colleague came to the rescue.

“The only reason I was able to do this study self-funded was I had a fire department colleague who had retired and opened up a hazardous waste disposal company, and he transported all the hazardous waste for me for fuel cost.”

Hazardous waste disposal at regular cost, she said, would have run thousands of dollars.

“Syringes had to be picked up and driven here. You have to have a hazardous waste transport certificate. If I had had to pay for that out of pocket, it would have been astronomical. But in the brotherhood spirit, he donated that or I never would have been able to do it.”

An interdisciplinary USF course about patient safety helped inspire the study, she said. Much of the course was devoted to “work-arounds” that by-pass safety in the process, and that issue pertained to much of what she observed in Pasco County.

“When you start an IV, when you take the sharp piece of metal out, there’s a little safety device that goes over the sharp end of it,” she said. “What I was seeing out in the field was that they were removing that or pushing it back so they could get an extra drop of blood to test the patient’s blood sugar. So they were manipulating the thing that was there to protect them.”

“The study just snow-balled from there. We were going to look at just that, but then we decided that, if we were looking at that work-around, why not look at all the riskier behaviors?”

Still, needle-stick injuries are the most prevalent source of HIV transmission from patients to health care workers, McGuire-Wolfe said, adding that the study also suggested that the risky behaviors causing them increase with the urgency of the call.

“They may not occur that frequently, but the consequences when it does happen are pretty significant,” she said.

The risky behaviors study was accepted for poster presentations at Association for Professionals in Infection Control conferences in Anaheim, Cal., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It is one of nine poster or oral presentations co-authored by McGuire-Wolfe and her mentor, Dr. Donna Haiduven, associate professor in the Department of Global Health.

Pending funding, McGuire-Wolfe said, her hope is to expand that initial research, the positive implications for public health being fairly obvious.

“We did this pilot study. We know what risky behaviors are happening with needles in Pasco County, and we know what they told us in focus groups about why those things are happening, but what’s going on in other departments? Are the same risky behaviors happening? If so, are the factors and the reasons similar?

“So the next step,” she said, “is to take it to a bigger audience and a bigger study population. We’ve presented the results at two national conferences. We were contacted by Portland, Ore., Fire-Rescue, who used some of our training materials. The hope is to raise awareness and disseminate the information we have, but also to include more departments and more settings in the knowledge base.”

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USF College of Public Health researchers Christine McGuire-Wolfe, PhD, CPH, EMT-P, and Donna Haiduven, PhD, RN, CIC, are co-authors on a publication entitled “Participation in a Hepatitis C and HIV Screening Program Among Emergency Responders in a Suburban Fire Department.”  The study is in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control.

McGuire-Wolfe is an adjunct faculty member and firefighter/paramedic with Pasco County Fire Rescue.  Assigned to the Special Projects Sector, she serves as the infection control officer for more than 400 employees.  In this role, McGuire-Wolfe utilizes her experiences within the fire service to identify and address infection control issues affecting emergency responders.  Some of the resulting research projects include a pilot study and program on firefighter sharps safety and hand hygiene practices.  Her ultimate goal is to integrate infection control safety measures into the day-to-day operations of the fire service.  McGuire-Wolfe recently earned a doctorate from the COPH.  Haiduven served as her major professor and continues to be a professional mentor.

Christine McGuire-Wolfe. PhD

Haiduven is an associate professor and director of the Infection Control Program in the COPH.  She has more than 25 years of experience as an infection control professional, is board certified in infection control by the Certification Board of Infection Control, and serves on the editorial board for Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology.  Her research interest is in the prevention of sharps injuries in healthcare workers, with a focus on evaluating sharps devices designed for safety.  

The Department of Global Health is the academic home for Drs. McGuire-Wolfe and Haiduven.

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McGuire-Wolfe, C., and Haiduven, D. (2014), Participation in a Hepatitis C and HIV Screening Program Among Emergency Responders in a Suburban Fire Department. American Journal of Infection Control , Volume 42 , Issue 6 , S96 – S97.

The abstract is posted online.

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