Except for an occasional bike ride or kayaking with her husband, Donna Petersen hasn’t had much down time over the past 10 months. “That’s OK,” she says. “I’m doing what I need to be doing.” Petersen, associate vice president of USF Health and dean of the College of Public Health, […]

December is a month of endings and beginnings on college campuses. Last December, in addition to graduating 263 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, the USF College of Public Health said goodbye to three longtime faculty, Drs. Barbara Orban, Kate Wolfe-Quintero and Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano, along with staff member, Mary Johnson. “We have been fortunate […]

Tampa Bay is beginning to feel the effects of the third wave of coronavirus, and the vaccine won’t be able to stop it in time. The Pfizer vaccine started being administered to health professionals Dec. 14; however, mass distribution likely won’t begin until the spring. In the meantime, social distancing […]