“Health is one of the major components in the vicious cycle of poverty,” said Emily Lupton, a research assistant at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health who recently authored her first publication in Parasitology International. Originally from North Carolina, Lupton earned her Master of Public Health in […]

USF College of Public Health graduate student Ryan Ortega, a candidate for the master of science in public health, has been awarded the Student Research Scholarship to fund his thesis project. Ortega, whose concentration is global communicable diseases, will be examining a number of structural and environmental factors in order to […]

“One of the best things that man has ever created for mosquitoes is a tire,” said Professor Robert Novak, who is a mosquito expert at the University of South Florida in the College of Public Health. “The tire is a 5-star hotel for the Aedes Aegypti.” Novak is currently conducting expensive research on the Aedes Aegypti know to carry viruses like Yellow Fever, Dengue and more recently, Chikungunya. “This is a very important virus, Chikungunya. Although it doesn’t kill, it can make people very sick and hurt the economy of […]

While most Floridians are seeking ways to avoid mosquitoes and horseflies over the summer, a few are actually looking for them. USF College of Public Health graduate students Samia McKeever and Ryan Ortega, both working on MSPH degrees in the Department of Global Health, recently led a group of undergraduates […]