Ana Scuteri felt compelled to make a difference in the health of the public after she watched two of her sisters die of a heart condition. “I knew working in this field would provide an opportunity to help improve people’s quality of life,” said Scuteri, a native of Peru who […]
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 […]
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program has awarded grants to a record-breaking number of USF students for the academic year 2022-2023, including one student from the College of Public Health (COPH). The program provides funding to qualified American citizens who want to study, conduct research or teach English abroad. The program, […]
This year’s USF Health Research Day set new records as more participants than ever filled the USF Tampa campus Marshall Student Center on March 3 to showcase the best of their scientific work. The 33rd USF Health Research Day included 457 research poster presentations by students, postdocs, residents, faculty and staff […]
Dr. Ira Richards, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) professor who specialized in toxicology, and Dr. Lillian Stark, a veteran of the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories, the 2005 COPH Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health and a past adjunct assistant professor at the college, recently passed […]
Leandra Olson got her first real introduction to public health when she was a junior in college at the University of Minnesota, taking part in an internship with the Minnesota Vikings Children’s Fund that focused on childhood obesity. “A mentor at the time noticed that I seemed to have more […]
Drs. Rita DeBate and Jennifer Bleck, two USF College of Public Health professors, have received the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Research Award of Excellence. DeBate and Bleck received the award for a poster presentation of their research, “A Pilot Evaluation of a University Health & Wellness Coaching Program.” […]
USF College of Public Health MPH student Deborah Booth, a USF alum and a clinical pharmacy specialist working in emergency medicine at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, N.J., recently gave a presentation, held virtually in November, on opioid prescribing to the New Jersey Society of Health-System Pharmacists (NJSHP). The goal […]