It was a passion for nutrition that first drove Norma Lisenko, who received her DrPH degree in Advanced Practice Leadership from the USF College of Public Health (COPH) in 2021, to investigate a career in public health. “I’m passionate about nutrition, physical activity, holistic wellness, mental health, children and women,” […]
USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Heewon Gray, associate professor specializing in nutrition, and COPH PhD alumnae Drs. Acadia Buro and Whitney Fung Uy attended the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior’s (SNEB) annual conference in Atlanta in July to share their research with a global group of attendees who […]
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 […]
“Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience up to five times more feeding problems than their neurotypical peers,” Dr. Heewon Gray, a USF College of Public Health assistant professor, said. Some of those feeding problems include problematic mealtime behaviors (for example, not staying seated and showing aggressive behaviors or tantrums […]
The University of South Florida will provide seed funding to 14 new research projects designed to address the medical, technological and societal issues of COVID-19. This brings the total of institutional resources invested into pandemic research to more than $1 million. This third round of funding is unique because researchers […]
Three of the four grants awarded by the University of South Florida Women’s Health Collaborative (WHC) this year went to faculty teams from the USF College of Public Health. Faculty teams compete for seed grants, which are made possible by sponsors and attendees of the previous year’s Leading the Way […]
Dr. Heewon Gray, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) assistant professor and nutrition education expert, along with several COPH graduate students, recently presented at the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) conference, held virtually in July. The SNEB is an organization “dedicated to promoting effective nutrition education and […]
During the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Annual Conference in Orlando this past July, SNEB partnered with the Korean Society of Community Nutrition (KSCN) to present USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Heewon Gray with the 2019 SNEB-KSCN Professional Achievement Award. In 2011 SNEB entered into a Memorandum […]