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Public health teams shine at student conference
The efforts of three industrious teams from USF鈥檚 College of Public Health (COPH) may follow different paths, but they speak as one voice in their message for social change.
May 23, 2025Community Health Sciences, Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation, Student Life
USF-headquartered Global Virus Network issues urgent call on rising threat of H5N1 bird flu
The Global Virus Network published a comprehensive analysis of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, calling on world governments to address the threat by enhancing surveillance, implementing biosecurity measures and preparing for potential human-to-human transmission.
May 12, 2025Research and Innovation, Sten Vermund
COPH team wins large scientific challenge on human genome research
Pathogenicity prediction isn鈥檛 a subject we discuss over our morning coffee, but it could be a topic of greater interest as it affects more and more lives, according to a researcher at USF鈥檚 Genomics Program at the College of Public Health (COPH).
May 9, 2025Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation
Classroom to career: Launching public health futures at COPH
From her roots on a Florida farm to the front lines of global disease elimination at USF鈥檚 College of Public Health, Dr. Kristi Miley has carved a path in public health. With three USF degrees 鈥� a PhD in global communicable diseases, an MSPH in global communicable diseases and a BS in biomedical sciences鈥� Miley has transformed her lifelong connection to animals and the natural world into a career devoted to infectious disease research, medical entomology and public health education.
April 28, 2025Alumni and Development, Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation
COPH and Healthy Start aim to improve the mental health of young people
Every child deserves a positive start in life, and a team at USF鈥檚 College of Public Health (COPH), along with graduates from the school, want to point young people in right direction.
April 11, 2025Health Policy and Systems Management, Research and Innovation
Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people鈥檚 digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.
April 11, 2025Epidemiology, Research and Innovation
Global experts convene to explore the cutting-edge science of microbiomes
Experts from around the world recently gathered at USF Health to talk about advances in the science of microbiomes.
March 28, 2025Research and Innovation
USF student gets to the heart of obesity
One in three Americans are overweight, which has created a crisis of life-threatening complications from obesity, such as high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and cardiac disease.
March 24, 2025Research and Innovation
USF researcher explores link between illness in pregnancy and cognitive development of newborns
Respiratory viruses are a major cause of early childhood illness, hospitalization and death around the world. Work by a team that includes a researcher at USF鈥檚 College of Public Health (COPH) could lead to countless lives saved.
March 7, 2025Community Health Sciences, Research and Innovation
Cannabis research board gets new member from COPH
USF has joined the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research as its 11th member. As part of this development, President Rhea Law nominated the College of Public Health鈥檚 (COPH) professor Dr. Troy Quast to be the university鈥檚 representative on the Consortium Board.
March 7, 2025Health Policy and Systems Management, Research and Innovation
COPH participates in record-breaking research day
More than 500 students, residents, trainees, faculty and leaders came together for the 35th annual USF Health Research Day, the largest research-focused event at the 麻豆视频 and the keynote celebration of health sciences research at the four USF Health colleges.
March 7, 2025Awards and Honors, Research and Innovation, Student Life
USF student aims to protect emergency responders
Most of us keep our distance from people with a cold, flu, COVID-19 or other nasty conditions, but what about those who meet them up close, often under stressful circumstances? How do first responders stay healthy in otherwise unhealthy places?
February 24, 2025Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation, Student Life