Rain Freeman, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) PhD student concentrating in epidemiology, recently presented research about the effects of red tide on preterm birth at the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) conference held in Chicago in August. She conducted the research, “Florida Red Tides and Preterm Birth,” […]
An interdisciplinary team of USF researchers is competing in stage 1 of the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) for a potential award of up to $1 million to support implementation of “community-driven, research-based pilot projects that address mobility and resilience priorities.” The competition, hosted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in […]
USF College of Public Health’s associate professor Dr. Cheryl Vamos, along with Dr. Jill McCracken, a gender and sexuality expert in USF’s College of Arts and Sciences, are co-principal investigators of the Choosing Myself grant exploring teen pregnancy prevention among justice-involved and marginalized youth. The two-year, nearly $800,000 grant from […]
March 22-25 is Medical Genetics Awareness Week The USF genomics program managed within the USF College of Public Health (COPH) is a consortium of active research programs from across the USF System united by the goal of harnessing the immense power of genomics research to develop innovative solutions to complex […]
The second annual USF One Health Codeathon was held last February, before the onslaught of COVID-19. What’s a codeathon? According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a codeathon (aka hackathon) is an event in which “researchers and [computer program/software] coders from a variety of backgrounds … work together and […]
More than 60 USF students and faculty members are dispersed across the state of Florida to assist the Florida Department of Health in identifying people who’ve come in contact with someone who’s tested positive for the coronavirus. They’re focused on finding those considered ‘high-risk,’ meaning someone who may have attended […]
The team members of the University of South Florida World Health Organization Collaboration Center (WHO CC) were awarded a grant to create social marketing strategies to reduce sodium consumption in Latin America. USF is part of an overall project funded at $1.2 million. Anthropology Professor Linda Whiteford and Distinguished Health […]