Chinwendu Ilonzo, a USF College of Public Health MPH student, has recently begun a 6-month evaluation fellowship with the nonprofit food safety organization Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE). The PFSE partners with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies and private entities to develop and […]
Barmak Kusha said he experienced a change of heart while in medical school. While he liked the “fighting disease part” of the field, he wasn’t sure that treating ill people was what he really wanted to do for a career. After leaving medical school, he immediately began taking courses in […]
Renya Maku, a second-year MPH student at USF’s College of Public Health (COPH), has recently joined the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) of Forward Pinellas, the county’s land use and transportation planning agency. Forward Pinellas provides a forum for countywide decision-making on transportation and land use issues. It assists Pinellas County’s […]
It was a summer reading project that first spurred Guinevere Ellison-Giles’ interest in public health. “To encourage me to read, my mom would pay me to read books over the summer when I was a kid. One of the books that I had chosen to read because it had piqued […]
Two USF College of Public Health (COPH) undergraduate students walked away with awards after presenting their research at USF’s 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference. The annual event, held virtually and in person this past April, is open to all USF undergraduates on all campuses. The purpose of the conference, say its […]
Dr. Karen Liller, a USF College of Public Health(COPH) professor and director of the college’s Activist Lab (which provides advocacy training, research and opportunities), teamed with Ellen Kent, coordinator of the USF Health Service Corps, and Activist Lab Student Advisory Board members to develop the Adopt-a-School Program for student advocacy. […]
Mask wearing has been a hot topic—with lukewarm popularity. To better understand which subset of people are most inclined to follow mask-wearing guidelines, several USF College of Public Health (COPH) students set out to observe people over several weeks last year, from midsummer to early fall. The students conducted their […]
Does childbearing increase a woman’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life? That is the question second-year USF College of Public Health PhD student Zailing Xing highlighted in her poster, “Parity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Over 45 Years in the United States: NHANES 2007-2018,” at this […]