Posts Tagged University of South Florida

Public health research seeks to understand how natural disasters impact spread of Zika

| COPH Office of Research, Departments, Featured News, Global Health, Our Research

USF researchers explore explosion of Zika after the 2016 Ecuadorean earthquake and what it tells us about emergency preparedness On April 16, 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the South American country of Ecuador. It was the most severe seismic event in nearly 40 years – killing roughly 700 people […]

New Course: Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s Disease

| Epidemiology

Click Here to view the flyer! Alzheimer’s disease has become a global epidemic that will continue to increase as the baby boom generation enters the age of highest risk.  Dementia is an umbrella term for problems with thinking and memory that develop in about half the population that lives to […]