USF College of Public Health (COPH) doctoral student Rolando Trejos has recently been appointed to the editorial advisory board of the Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health journal, published by Springer Publishing. The Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health is a peer-reviewed online journal covering populational research on […]
Get ready! Applications for the 2023-24 cohort of Public Health Regenerative Leadership Synergy (PHEARLESS), a new grant and leadership enhancement opportunity based on the principles of regenerative leadership, will open next month. PHEARLESS will support up to 15 teams, each comprising two community leaders and two governmental public health leaders […]
USF College of Public Health (COPH) graduate Aditi Desai has visited all seven continents—and learned about public health along the way. As the daughter of immigrants, she caught the travel bug early. Desai, who grew up in Orlando, spent summers visiting family in India and Canada, where an uncle who […]
In the summer of 2022, after a rash of mass shootings, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) convened a task force on gun violence prevention made up of experts from 13 member schools. Dr. Karen Liller, a USF College of Public Health Distinguished University Health Professor […]
The USF College of Public Health (COPH) welcomed master’s and doctoral students to a graduation ceremony presented at the college (and also livestreamed) to family, friends, students, faculty and staff on May 5. Dr. Donna Petersen, dean of the COPH, began the ceremony sharing the morning’s top news headlines. The dean noted […]
Samuel P. Bell III, a former legislator in the Florida House of Representatives and founder of the USF College of Public Health (COPH), was posthumously awarded USF’s Distinguished Citizen Award at the university’s 2023 spring commencement held May 7. Bell died on March 14, 2023, at the age of 83. […]
Dr. Rays Jiang, a USF College of Public Health associate professor who pioneered the first genomics lab at the university, has been awarded the Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award by USF’s Women in Leadership & Philanthropy (WLP). Each year, the Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award is presented to […]
Dr. Donna Petersen, senior associate vice president of USF Health and dean of the USF College of Public, is the first recipient of REACHUP, Inc.’s Community Advocacy Award. REACHUP, Inc. is a Tampa-based nonprofit aimed at improving racial and ethnic equality in health care and health outcomes for area families. […]