The USF College of Public Health graduated 136 future public health professionals on Saturday, Aug. 4. Sixty-four students* received a bachelor’s degree, 68 a master’s degree and four were awarded doctorates. From the pinning ceremony for the undergraduates held Friday morning, Aug. 3, to the graduation celebration held for the graduate students later that afternoon, the […]
The USF College of Public Health and the USF College of Pharmacy (COP) are teaming up to offer a new certificate in pharmacoepidemiology. Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the utilization and effects of drugs in a population. It provides a probability of the beneficial effects of a drug in a population as well as the […]
USF College of Public Health undergraduates found themselves taking in new sights, sounds, smells and tastes from around the globe this summer. Their experiences varied in length from three months to eight days and included stops in Panama, England and Japan. Deidre Orriola, instructor II, led the eight-day study abroad experience in Panama, May 3-11, […]
For more than two decades, the USF College of Public Health’s Social Marketing Conference has drawn attendees from around the globe with the common interest of using strategic marketing principles to make the world a better place. The COPH’s Florida Prevention Research Center (FPRC) has managed the conference, held every two years, since 1991. More […]
August 5-11 is International Assistance Dog Week Watch out, Rocky. There’s a new Bull on campus and she’s melting hearts and gaining fans wherever she goes. Meet Anja, a 7-month-old black lab and guide-dog-in-training who calls the USF College of Public Health (COPH) Office of Research her weekday home. Brian Cullum, MEd, a COPH manager […]
The University of South Florida Women’s Health Collaborative recognized four USF College of Public Health faculty at its fifth annual Leading the Way Awards Luncheon on May 8. More than 260 community leaders and health researchers attended the luncheon, making it the largest event since the program’s inception. The USF Women’s Health Collaborative program provides […]
“Public health students have a duty to help. It’s constantly recognizing that we’re not saviors and in situations we’re not changing someone’s whole experience, but if we know we can help make someone’s life a little easier, in any way, than that should be our goal,” said USF College of Public Health MPH candidate Carson […]
Dr. Foday Moriba Jaward, a USF College of Public Health (COPH) associate professor of environmental and occupational health, was recently appointed by the democratically elected president of his native country, Sierra Leone, to lead that nation’s Environmental Protection Agency. Jaward, whose official title is executive chairman-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was approved by the country’s parliament […]