From receiving awards to making presentations to attending a spirited reception, USF College of Public Health (COPH) students, faculty, staff and alumni left their mark on the annual American Public Health Association (APHA) Meeting and Expo. The theme for this year’s event, attended by more than 10,000 public health advocates […]
From improving water quality to advancing mental health care to pursuing new treatments for Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, 22 USF faculty members are being recognized next month with Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Awards. The recipients’ research accomplishments span a variety of fields across biology, business, communication, education, engineering, medicine, psychology […]
In an effort to strengthen the U.S. public health system, three national philanthropic nonprofits have awarded the University of South Florida more than $8.5 million in grants to train the nation’s public health leaders in collaboration and leadership skills. The grant is in response to a badly depleted, post-pandemic public […]
Applications are now open for a new initiative that will bring rising public health leaders together with community leaders to co-create sustainable collaborative solutions that advance health and well-being for all. Supported by an investment of more than $8.5 million from The Kresge Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and […]
Leandra Olson got her first real introduction to public health when she was a junior in college at the University of Minnesota, taking part in an internship with the Minnesota Vikings Children’s Fund that focused on childhood obesity. “A mentor at the time noticed that I seemed to have more […]
Faculty across several disciplines at USF Health earned National Institutes of Health funding to streamline prenatal, obstetric, pediatric, treatment, behavioral and community health care for patients with opioid use disorder. Called CADENCE (Continuous and Data-Driven Care), the new program will better serve pregnant patients and new parents, as well as […]
Devastating hurricanes impact us all, but perhaps none so much as pregnant people, infants and special needs children and their families. USF College of Public Health (COPH) PhD candidate Blake Scott, along with COPH Associate Professor and alumna Jennifer Marshall and colleagues, set out to determine how the maternal child […]
COVID-19 and the lockdown orders it ushered in prevented many people—including pregnant women, who rely on regularly scheduled medical checkups for safe deliveries and healthy babies—from accessing health care. To fill a need, USF Health initiated telemedicine appointments for obstetric patients at the beginning of the pandemic. “Because the obstetric […]