The University of South Florida College of Public Health is helping the Hillsborough County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) prepare refugee and migrant women for natural disasters in the Tampa Bay area. Public Health students facilitated a visit to the Emergency Operations Center – allowing the women to share their […]
With more than 12 years of experience in humanitarian disaster relief and major humanitarian health crises across more than 25 countries, USF College of Public Health MPH student Michael McCusker found it a natural calling to deploy to the frontlines to assist displaced populations evacuating from Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. […]
A story of growth One USF College of Public Health (COPH) internal seed grant has helped the research efforts of Dr. Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, assistant professor of social marketing, blossom into more than half a million dollars. As a result of the work she was able to do because of […]
The summer 2017 issue of USF Magazine features a series on members of the USF community who are engaged with the refugee community. What follows is a story highlighting the work of COPH alumna Elizabeth Dunn. Elizabeth Dunn, ’07, ’08 and MPH ‘11, is assistant to the director of the […]
Shams Rahman lived in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan for 18 years, starting with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan when he was a toddler. “My family fled. My father was a judge, and my grandfather was the chief justice of Afghanistan, so we were a very highly targeted […]