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 […]
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 […]
If sports didn’t work out, Kayvon Webster, a former USF cornerback who helped lead the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl championship in 2015, thought he might make a career in medicine. “I really wanted to be a medical examiner,” said Webster, who also ran track for USF. “But I […]
On October 28, 1987, the U.S. Congress passed a proclamation of the first national Immigrants Day (Proclamation 5737, 1987). To commemorate this day, we are focusing this piece on a group of immigrants that are often stigmatized and condemned through stereotypes and fallacies, the undocumented and DACAmented immigrant community. As undocumented members […]
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) announced that Melanie J. Wells, MPH, CAE, the college’s current Chief Operations Officer, has been selected by the ACMG Board of Directors to become its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), following a thorough national search. Wells is the first African American and […]
Frank Yiannas has devoted his career to protecting consumers from deadly bacteria and pathogens. It’s a career that started in 1987 when the newly minted University of Central Florida grad took his BS in microbiology and began working on product safety in the private sector. It was a job that […]
Dr. Gene Felber is a Bull three times over. He received his bachelor’s from the university in 1991, his MSPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from USF’s College of Public Health (COPH) in 1993 and his PhD in epidemiology five years later. “I was the first in my family—immediate or extended—to […]
Dawn Hunter’s first exposure to public health came when she worked as a research assistant in the Advanced Biosensors Laboratory at USF’s Center for Biological Defense. “We developed and tested rapid-detection methods for food and waterborne pathogens,” said Hunter, who holds two bachelor’s degrees—one in English literature from Princeton and […]