Jeremy Corrigan, a molecular biologist, has managed the public health laboratory in Northern California’s rural Humboldt County since 2010.  Pre COVID-19, Corrigan—a USF College of Public Health DrPH candidate in the online public health and clinical laboratory science and practice program—and his small staff did your run-of-the-mill testing and tracking. […]

The USF College of Public Health (COPH) has been training students to become laboratory directors since 2017. The DrPH program in clinical laboratory science and practice program was implemented because of the emerging need for more laboratory directors in the United States. Clinical laboratories are vital to the country’s public […]

The bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)—a life-threatening respiratory condition spread from person to person through infected particles in the air—takes weeks-to-months to grow, making it one of nature’s slowest-growing infections. That means a patient with suspected but unconfirmed tuberculosis can remain undiagnosed, untreated, and infectious while a laboratory grows a […]

The doctoral-level program was created in response to a projected workforce shortage The University of South Florida  College of Public Health has launched a unique training program  addressing the impending shortage of public health laboratory directors. Dr. Jill Roberts, assistant professor in the Department of Global Health, is coordinating the […]

“Every day I use information I gained from my studies at University of South Florida College of Public Health and put my knowledge into action,” said Dr. Michael Pentella, director of the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory, “I get to help others learn about diseases that they are encountering for […]

Biosafety Level 3 laboratory commissioned; state-of-the-art insectary completed

Global Health Infectious Disease Research (GHIDR) Laboratory founded