According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly half of the world’s population in 2021 was at risk of malaria, a life-threatening disease most often transmitted to humans via mosquito bites. And while the disease is most prevalent in tropical countries, several cases of locally acquired malaria have recently been […]
Dr. Vania Assis, a postdoctoral scholar working at the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Center for Global Health Inter-Disciplinary Research, recently guest edited an issue of the scientific journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The issue focused on amphibian immunity. “Amphibians are a group of animals that […]
In collaboration with Pacific Biosciences (PacBio), the USF College of Public Health’s Genomics Program and Sequencing Core recently hosted a Genomics Symposium entitled “Long Read Single Molecule Sequencing: A New Era in Genomics.” Pacific Biosciences, commonly known as PacBio, is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures cutting-edge systems for gene […]
In March, a team of USF faculty, including USF College of Public Health (COPH) Salud Latina faculty members Drs. Ismael Hoare, Ricardo Izurieta, Dinorah Martinez Tyson and Jason Salemi, traveled to Panama to attend and speak at an international forum focused on health disparities and misinformation in Latin America. Also […]
The USF College of Public Health’s Genomics Program and the Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research (GHIDR) recently hosted a Digital Spatial Genomics Symposium, in collaboration with biotech companies Nanostring and Illumina. More than 100 attendees participated in the one-day symposium held in February, with a majority being USF faculty and students. Representatives […]
A team of researchers led by Dr. John Adams from the USF College of Public Health (COPH) have recently published an article looking at the pathways some deadly malaria-causing parasites use to survive not just human fever—the body’s natural defense against pathogens—but also the drugs designed to attack them. The […]
In June, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill requiring genetic counselors to be licensed by the Florida Department of Health. The law, known as the Genetic Counseling Workforce Act, became effective on July 1. “Before licensure, anybody could call themselves a genetic counselor. Licensure is a move that […]
World Malaria Day is April 25. She was in the third grade when it hit her the hardest. She missed a month of school while hospitalized in a battle to overcome malaria. USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Endora Ankrah, a second-year health sciences major, has had multiple firsthand encounters […]