According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 46 percent of U.S. youth—or 34 million children—have had at least one adverse childhood experience by age 18, and more than 20 percent have had two or more.  Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events such as the death or incarceration of […]

It’s something of a catch-22: Sleep is essential to good health, yet sleep is often reduced after traumatic events like sexual violence. What can be done to improve the sleep of traumatized people, especially those experiencing sexual trauma and living in low-to-medium income countries with multiple health disparities?  Conducting research […]

USF College of Public Health (COPH) professor Dr. Etienne Pracht received a $6,000 grant from the Florida Department of Health to develop new survival risk ratios. Survival risk ratios (SSRs) are estimates of survival associated with a particular injury as defined by the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). They are […]