One of Florida’s largest passenger rail services is experiencing an increase in ridership – and leaders of a Florida Department of Transportation program that promotes alternatives to commuters who drive alone attribute some of this success to guidance from an interdisciplinary team of researchers at USF who combined eye-tracking technology […]
From Asia to Australia to Africa and places in between, USF College of Public Health students practiced their passion last summer across all areas of the globe. Some traveled as part of research grants. Others took part in international field experiences. International Field Experience (IFE) is a practicum open to […]
Combining forces to take action The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) Hillsborough County Office of Minority Health has chosen the USF College of Public Health (USF COPH) to co-facilitate their health equity coalition and task force with the goal to create a “health equity plan” this spring. USF COPH’s Dr. […]
Two years into a worldwide pandemic and COVID-19 still grips our attention. And rightly so. Overall, there have been more than 250 million cases of COVID-19 and 5 million-plus deaths. Vaccines have offered hope, but with fewer than 60 percent of the American population fully vaccinated and new mutations bursting […]
In June 2020, the Office of Minority Health (OMH), part of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced the award of a $40 million grant to the Morehouse School of Medicine and key strategic partners, including the USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Florida Prevention Research Center (FPRC). Along with ICF Next, a global […]
A story of growth One USF College of Public Health (COPH) internal seed grant has helped the research efforts of Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, assistant professor of social marketing, blossom into more than half a million dollars. As a result of the work she was able to do because of […]
Leveraging the power of virtual training Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, assistant professor of social marketing and associate director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Social Marketing and Social Change at the USF College of Public Health, is training public health practitioners on how to apply social marketing to their global ongoing work […]
Serious injury and death from car crashes is a public health issue and USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, COPH assistant professor and research faculty for the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), aims to help address it. She and her team have been awarded […]