A panel of USF Health experts, along with the Honorable Jane Castor, mayor of Tampa, will participate in a COVID-19 roundtable discussion followed by a 30-minute virtual audience Q&A session. This virtual event will be broadcast from Busch Gardens Tampa on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 7-8:30 p.m. The COVID-19 Town […]
USF College of Public Health students Hunter Drake and Alexandra Cario presented their research at the 2020 National Ryan White Conference, which was held virtually in August due to COVID-19. This conference, which celebrated “30 Years of Innovating Care, Optimizing Public Health, Ending the HIV Epidemic,” focused on all the […]
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Even before the challenges of COVID-19, the mental health of medical workers was being pushed to the brink. Consider these sobering statistics: Medical students are three times more likely than their counterparts in the general population to die from suicide, reports the American […]
As a fourth-year medical student at USF’s Morsani College of Medicine (MCOM), Dr. Sayeef Mirza did a clinical rotation through several free clinics serving the uninsured. In the course of working at these clinics, Mirza, who is also a USF College of Public Health (COPH) alum with an MPH degree, […]
In early March, shortly after World Birth Defects Day (WBDD) and before COVID-19 travel restrictions took effect, the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) held its annual conference in Arlington, Va. The conference’s 150 participants, including USF College of Public Health (COPH) faculty, students and staff who manage the USF […]
The USF College of Public Health’s (COPH) Florida Family AIDS Network (FAN) has been awarded HRSA funding to provide additional COVID-19 testing and resources to women, infants, children and youth living with HIV and their families. The funding, provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), […]
In 2008, as a freshman in the seven-year BS/MD program at USF, Dr. Sayeef Mirza made the decision to minor in public health. It was a decision that was short lived. “I quickly realized I wanted the ‘full package,’” said Mirza, a Florida native who graduated the USF College of […]
When Dr. Kelly Sullivan started college, she had no idea the field of public health existed. “I was a bookworm who loved medicine and math and wanted a career that would focus on helping people,” said Sullivan, who graduated the USF College of Public Health (COPH) with her MSPH in […]