Dr. Robert Novak, a professor at the USF College of Public Health (COPH), was known to not hold back. This was a trait that made a lasting impact not only in his personal life, but in his public health career specializing in vector-borne diseases. Novak passed away August 4, 2022. […]
Traditional mosquito abatement programs, which generally call for the spraying of insecticides across widespread areas via helicopters, can be expensive and imprecise. Manatee County, looking for a more effective and less-costly strategy to combat flood water or “nuisance” mosquitos, turned to experts at the USF College of Public Health (COPH) […]
Vector-borne-disease expert Dr. Robert Novak, a USF College of Public Health professor of global health, recently returned from the 2018 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, held in October in Berlin, Germany. The Grand Challenges Annual Meeting is a scientific convening to foster collaboration among partners to solve the world’s most pressing […]
USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Robert Novak is aiming to reduce the transmission of malaria in Cambodia with the help of drone technology. His Gates Foundation funded research is currently underway in Mekong River Subregio in Cambodia, an area Novak says is experiencing both antimalarial drug resistance, as well […]
The USF College of Public Health held a celebration and reception on Friday, November 18 to recognize and honor the contributions and work of faculty and staff at their 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 year service milestones. “Whether we are faculty, staff, administrators or leaders all of us are […]
Educating the public about the ways that the Zika virus is carried in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes is the primary goal of Robert Novak, PhD, professor at the USF College of Public Health Department of Global Health. In September, Novak joined a panel of a dozen city, county, transportation and tourism […]
“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 […]
In late April, the USF College of Public Health hosted GIS Student Poster Session III. A multidisciplinary field in which computer hardware and the software industry collaborate to create effective spatial mapping tools, GIS is used by many organizations, public agencies and researchers to geographically visualize different types of data. […]