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 […]

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 […]

University of South Florida College of Public Health associate professor Dr. Jennifer Marshall, an expert in maternal-child health, is a co-principal investigator with USF OB-GYN Dr. Kimberly Fryer of a “secret shopper” survey to evaluate access to prenatal care for women in Florida with opioid use disorder (OUD). The study […]