A USF College of Public Health and Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master’s alumnus has been recognized with top awards for playing a key role in the Operation Warp Speed initiative aimed at rapidly developing a COVID-19 vaccine while serving as a visiting professor at the U.S. Army War […]
Social marketing uses commercial marketing principles (e.g., solving a customer’s problem with a product or service) to achieve socially beneficial ends, such as health and safety. Building upon previous research, Dr. Claudia Parvanta, a USF College of Public Health professor who specializes in social marketing and health communication, and colleagues […]
USF College of Public Health’s Dr. Michael Edwin, professor of epidemiology and population ecology of disease transmission, says the future of COVID-19 infections can, contrary to recent debate, be forecasted using data-driven mathematical models. He and colleagues present their findings in “Combining predictive models with future change scenarios can produce […]
Tampa-based health care startup Verséa has given thousands of diagnostic COVID-19 test kits to the University of South Florida for use by students on all three campuses. This gift – valued at over $1.1 million – aligns with Verséa’s and USF’s shared commitment to supporting the development and health of the Tampa […]
USF College of Public Health alum Charles Ford was recently selected as a 2022-2023 Gilman Scholarship alumni ambassador. He will serve as an official representative of the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program. The scholarship enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, […]
Among these impressive discoveries and advancements, one researcher in USF Health has created a nationally acclaimed interactive dashboard to track COVID-19 and another is developing novel COVID-19 therapeutics. Another faculty member has received NASA funding to improve human spaceflight conditions, while her colleague is creating new defenses for wireless network […]
USF College of Public Health Dean Donna Petersen will broaden her presence at the university by immediately assuming the role of chief health officer and interim associate vice provost for Student Health and Wellness. The purpose of this decision comes in an effort to allow the goals outlined in USF’s […]
A University of South Florida (USF) epidemiology associate professor discovered associations between COVID-19 mortality rates and socioeconomic position, gender, ethnicity and race that reveal an urgent need to implement population-based infection control efforts, especially for those in low socioeconomic positions (SEP). In collaboration with a team of epidemiologists from the COVKID […]