First published on June 4, 2015 in observance of the COPH’s 30th anniversary celebration. It was January 1998, and the Florida Board of Regents had just promoted one of USF’s fledgling entities to major status with sublimely understated efficiency. Following authorizations for a BS in dance education, a degree of […]
The USF College of Public Health is saying farewell to one of its esteemed faculty members, Dr. William Sappenfield, a USF Distinguished Professor and director of the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC) and the Chiles Center, both housed within the college and dedicated to cutting-edge research and education promoting the […]
Dr. Russell Kirby, a USF Distinguished Professor and perinatal epidemiology expert at the USF College of Public Health, has been honored with a mentoring award that bears his name. Kirby became the first-ever recipient of the Russell S. Kirby Mentoring Award, presented by the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN). […]
Samuel “Sam” P. Bell, III, father of the USF College of Public Health (COPH) and overall champion of USF, died March 14 at the age of 83. Bell, the husband of former USF president Betty Castor, served in the Florida Legislature for 14 years. He dedicated himself to improving health […]
Haley Maxwell’s interest in public health began when she served as a scribe for a urogynecologist who had a public health degree in addition to a medical one. “I loved the way she practiced medicine because she treated each person individually, according to their conditions,” said Maxwell, who graduated USF’s […]
Amanda DeWeese was pregnant with her oldest child when she began her graduate studies toward an MPH in maternal and child health at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health (USF COPH). She had just earned two undergraduate degrees in 2008 from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in health […]
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Guatemala has the third-highest rate of femicide (the homicide of women based on gender) in the world. And according to UN Women, 21.2 percent of Guatemalan women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime. […]
When Xonjenese Jacobs, a USF College of Public Health DrPH student, got her BSW degree, she knew she wanted to make at-promise adolescent girls her “population of choice.” She now serves as the executive director of the Pace Center for Girls, Hernando, a position she was appointed to in July. […]