The Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC), housed within USF’s College of Public Health (COPH), has one mission: to give Florida’s mothers, infants and families the best health outcomes possible via perinatal care that’s respectful, equitable, high quality and evidence based. The FPQC partners with perinatal-related organizations, individuals, health professionals, advocates, […]
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is about 99 percent effective in reducing the risk of contracting HIV from sex, but that’s only if it’s taken daily. When users forget, lack motivation for taking a daily pill or experience barriers to getting the drug, risk goes up. An implantable, biodegradable PrEP device, […]
The Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC) has had an exciting Spring as the Promoting Primary Vaginal Deliveries (PROVIDE) and the Maternal Opioid Recovery Effort (MORE) Initiatives conclude. Virtual celebration meetings with teams were held on May 4th, 2022 for PROVIDE and May 17th, 2022 for MORE, with over 180 participants between both meetings. These celebrations recognized hospitals for their many successes and discussed how to sustain their successes and momentum achieved during the initiatives. Dr. William Sappenfield, FPQC Director, opened the meetings with a special thank you for hospital teams’ […]
Does childbearing increase a woman’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life? That is the question second-year USF College of Public Health PhD student Zailing Xing highlighted in her poster, “Parity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Women Over 45 Years in the United States: NHANES 2007-2018,” at this […]
The Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative (FPQC) has been busy this fall preparing for the final virtual meetings for our two maternal health quality improvement initiatives: PROVIDE (Promoting Primary Vaginal Deliveries) and MORE (Maternal Opioid Recovery Effort). On September 23, over 130 attendees from 45 hospital teams, Healthy Start Coalitions, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, and state agencies and organizations gathered virtually to learn how the PROVIDE initiative is progressing, hear tips from state and national experts on reducing Nulliparous Term Singleton Vertex (NTSV) cesarean births, and gain inspiration for making the […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) doctoral student and research assistant Dr. Marlene Joannie Bewa has earned the Faculty for the Future Fellowship. The fellowship is sponsored by the Schlumberger Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at supporting gender equality in STEM and generating conditions that encourage women to pursue scientific careers […]
The Mid-Project Meeting for the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative’s Promoting Primary Vaginal Deliveries (PROVIDE) Initiative looked a little different than meetings in the past. Held virtually on November 19, 2020, the meeting attracted more than 130 participants including hospital representatives, healthcare organizations, and other stakeholders. The meeting was an opportunity […]
Three of the four grants awarded by the University of South Florida Women’s Health Collaborative (WHC) this year went to faculty teams from the USF College of Public Health. Faculty teams compete for seed grants, which are made possible by sponsors and attendees of the previous year’s Leading the Way […]