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USF trio makes impact at public health symposium
Being safe from environmental risk is essential to our society, and three students from USF’s College of Public Health (COPH) want to keep people focused on their personal well-being.
June 9, 2025Research and Innovation

USF Health explores the potential for a healthier region
Researchers, students and faculty at USF’s College of Public Health (COPH) might be a tightly knit group in Tampa, but their voice is heard internationally.
June 9, 2025Research and Innovation

COPH lab teaches students the fine points of causal inference
We all use the phrase cause and effect, but do we really know what it means and how it applies to our daily lives?
June 9, 2025Research and Innovation

USF and Dominican Republic colleges forge educational bond
A commitment to building partnerships is part of the USF College of Public Health (COPH) philosophy, and it extends well beyond the campus. A recent grant enables the college to strengthen its connections with the Dominican Republic, fostering collaboration, education and research opportunities.
June 9, 2025Research and Innovation

Public health teams shine at student conference
The efforts of three industrious teams from USF’s 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’t 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’s 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’s College of Public Health, Dr. Kristi Miley has carved a path in public health. With three USF degrees — a PhD in global communicable diseases, an MSPH in global communicable diseases and a BS in biomedical sciences— 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’s 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’s 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, Student Life