Dorothy D. Zeviar, EdD, LAc, MPH (GH,’12), CPH recently presented a poster entitled “Apathy or Engagement?  Applying health behavior theories to disaster preparedness” at the Pacific Northwest Border Health Alliance Conference in Tacoma, WA.  The poster is currently displayed in the Department of Global Health.

Adewale Troutman, MD, was named the 2012 recipient of the Dr. James T. Black Award from the 100 Black Men of America, Inc., a national organization that implements programs designed to improve the quality of life for African Americans and other minorities. Dr. Adewale Troutman Dr. Troutman, who directs the Public Health Practice and Leadership, the Center for Leadership in Public Health, and the Public Health Practice Masters of Public Health program, was recognized for his accomplishments and community service. For more than three decades, Dr. Troutman has tracked the [...]

Carla McClellan (BH) was recently hired by the Native American Health Center.  As an evaluator, she joins the evaluation and data team and will ensure high quality data management and reporting. Ms McClellan will also have the opportunity to develop curriculum, as well as hone her writing and advocacy skills. Although the cross country move to California is a stressful endeavor, McClellan says the job is “basically a conglomerate of everything I love! I am so ready to get there and do this!” McClellan is scheduled to graduate with an [...]

Donna Rodandello, staff assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, recently received the USF Staff Senate Quiet Quality Award. In her nomination materials, Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology, shared, “Ms Rondandello has numerous responsibilities and her work is always professional and conscientious.  She holds a positive attitude when working with departmental, college, and university employees and has great familiarity with numerous university business systems and procedures.” “The award was presented in our faculty meeting on May 18 and was a total surprise to me,” recalls Rondandello.  “Carolyn [...]

Students can click here:  http://health.usf.edu/ahec/USFHealthServicesCorps/hscevents.htm to see Spring 2012 Service Corps Opportunities for the most up to date, comprehensive listing of events and projects, which are arranged by categories, and the Service Corps Calendar to view upcoming events in chronological order.       

In April, five College of Public Health colleagues ventured to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to present posters of their work that were accepted by the 13th World Congress on Public Health.  Jointly undertaken by the Ethiopian Public Health Association and the World Federation of Public Health Associations, this triennial Congress’s theme was “Towards Global Health Equity: Opportunities and Threats.” The college delegation included Drs. Heather Stockwell, professor and department chair, Getachew Dagne, associate professor, Wendy Nembhard, associate professor, and Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano, assistant professor from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as [...]

Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jul;75(1):156-64. Epub 2012 Mar 13. The relationship between state abortion-restrictions and homicide deaths among children under 5 years of age: A longitudinal study. Sen B, Wingate MS, Kirby R. Source Department of Healthcare Organization & Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore whether, in the U.S., there are associations between state-level variations in mortality among young children and state abortion restriction policies – such as parental-consent requirements, parental-notification requirements, mandatory delay laws, and restrictions on Medicaid funding [...]

Yangxin Huang, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, received the USF Faculty International Travel Grant for two international conferences: “The Second Joint Biostatistics International Symposium” in June and “The International Conference on Analytical and Computational Methods for Complex Systems” in July. Both conferences are held in China. Huang was invited to give oral presentations in special sessions of the conferences and was selected as a scientific committee member. He will address challenging issues for biostatistical modeling with application to HIV/AIDS longitudinal studies in providing guidance [...]

Henian Chen, PhD, was awarded a proposal enhancement grant from the USF Division of Sponsored Research titled Longitudinal Relationships between Well-Being and Life Goals and Associations among Happiness and MAOA, OXTR Genes in the amount of $24,500.  This proposal has the following specific aims: Aim 1: To estimate the causal relationships between SWB and life goal changes in 2 generations over the same 30 year period and the relations between mother SWB and offspring SWB. Aim 2: To determine the changes over the span of adulthood in long-term impact of [...]

Students are encouraged to check out the website of student funding opportunities at http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/officeresearch/student-research-2.htm.  Our next monthly deadline for the Student Honorary Award for Research and Practice “SHARP” award is Monday, June 4th.