When Dr. Kelly Sullivan started college, she had no idea the field of public health existed. “I was a bookworm who loved medicine and math and wanted a career that would focus on helping people,” said Sullivan, who graduated the USF College of Public Health (COPH) with her MSPH in […]
As a native Nigerian, giving back to her country has always been a top priority for Mariam Badru, a second-year MPH student at the USF College of Public Health (COPH) who is concentrating in maternal and child health. So on a recent visit back home to Nigeria’s Lagos State, Badru […]
USF College of Public Health alumni Anthony Marquez and Matt Allman have found themselves in the same building, but this time as colleagues rather than classmates. The recent epidemiology grads—Marquez earned an MPH in 2019 and Allman is a double COPH alumnus earning an MPH in 2019 and bachelors […]
USF College of Public Health graduate student Sharonda Lovett was awarded the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) 21st Century Student Scholarship. Through SOPHE’s Campaign for the 21st Century: Building SOPHE’s Future, the scholarship supports full-time undergraduate and graduate students interested in attending SOPHE’s fall summit or annual spring conference. […]
Natalie Joseph says she “stumbled” into public health while an undergraduate at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where she studied biomedical sciences with her sights set on becoming a doctor. “I switched my major to biology so I could pick up a medical anthropology minor and global health certificate,” […]
Dr. Kimberly Nguyen, who received her DrPH from the USF College of Public Health (COPH) in 2018, left her home in Vietnam for the U.S. when she was just five years old. She didn’t return again until she was a teen. “I didn’t know what public health was until I […]
Dr. Ryan Tokarz, who received both his MPH and PhD in global communicable diseases from the USF College of Public Health (COPH), had a childhood dream of being a marine biologist who studied sharks. As time went on, the Lutz, Fla., native went a little off course, swapping biology for […]
Each year the 117 chapters of Delta Omega, a public health student honor society, can nominate one undergraduate and two graduate students from their respective schools to present posters at the APHA annual meeting. This year all three USF College of Public Health students nominated were selected. According to the […]