Meredith Kernbach, a third-year USF College of Public Health (COPH) doctoral student in global health, was lead author on the article “Dim Light at Night: Physiological and Ecological Consequences for Infectious Disease.” The paper was published recently in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. The article notes that light pollution, […]
Dr. William Sappenfield, director of the USF Chiles Center and a professor in community and family health at the USF College of Public Health, is a co-author of the peer-reviewed study “The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality: An Outcome Evaluation From the US South, 2011 […]
Kyle Vogel’s interest in industrial hygiene was homegrown. His aunt died of mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos working in a car-battery factory, and his father has significant hearing loss stemming from his job in a paper-printing machine shop. “Employee safety hits close to home for me,” said Vogel, a […]
May is Mental Health Awareness Month Final exams. The fight you had with a friend. The overdue electric bill. Stress—that physical, emotional and mental tension you feel—is everywhere. And the USF COPH is no exception. According to the American Institute of Stress, roughly three-quarters of Americans feel the physical and […]
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 […]
The College graduated its first distance learning students in Fall of this year. USF-COPH was the first in the world to offer an interdisciplinary MPH degree in public health practice through distance learning technology.