Welcome to “Inside USF: The Podcast,” created especially for University of South Florida faculty, staff and alumni. We know you’re busy – so busy, in fact, that it can be hard to find the time to learn about the important work taking place across our three campuses. We’re here to […]
Since 1990, the USF College of Public Health’s Alumni Society (COPH-AS) has been working to recruit alumni and mentor students, give out scholarships and plan events to foster Bull pride. At its peak in 1996, more than 300 paid alumni were members of the society. Today, the COPH-AS is thriving. […]
Two years into a worldwide pandemic and COVID-19 still grips our attention. And rightly so. Overall, there have been more than 250 million cases of COVID-19 and 5 million-plus deaths. Vaccines have offered hope, but with fewer than 60 percent of the American population fully vaccinated and new mutations bursting […]
“At the height of the pandemic last year, in the midst of lockdowns and school closures, I would hear news about college students in general and how they were being affected, but nothing about international students, who usually experience more stressors than local college students,” Chinyere Reid, a doctoral candidate […]
A COPH poster explores the question, wins FPHA award USF College of Public Health (COPH) alumnus Michael Wiese, an epidemiology program manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) in Hillsborough County, presented the poster Hindsight Is 2020: Lessons Learned for Health Departments Hiring Epidemic Response Contact Tracers at the […]
“This group of students have persevered under unprecedented circumstances. Their worlds were flipped upside down and they have hung in there, learning in new ways since March of 2020. This group has learned in real-time what it means to confront the failings of our system.” said USF College of Public […]
Pandemic-related food insecurity and its impact on college students According to data collected in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic by researchers at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, three in five college students experienced basic needs insecurity, with food insecurity affecting 44 percent of students at […]
The slackening of vaccinations is leading to a large resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Florida. New data provided by University of South Florida epidemiologist Edwin Michael and colleague Ken Newcomb shows that there’s been a 70 percent drop in the rate of people getting vaccinated in Hillsborough County since April. […]