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±«Óãtv summer ventures span the globe with innovative research projects
With funding from the National Science Foundation, a team of ±«Óãtv engineers and public health experts spent the summer in Madagascar. Since 2022, the interdisciplinary team, which includes students, has been working together to improve water quality in Toamasina.
September 5, 2024Research and Innovation
±«Óãtv PhD candidate stresses need for malaria chemoprevention programs
Michaela Gross is like most young researchers at ±«Óãtv’s College of Public Health: She thinks big.
September 5, 2024Research and Innovation
Alumnus Dr. Nolan Kline uses anthropology to ‘see the big picture’ in health career
±«Óãtv alumnus Dr. Nolan Kline has used his training and educational knowledge obtained from earning both his doctoral and master’s degrees from the ±«Óãtv College of Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology as the basis for his career addressing social and health issues.
September 5, 2024Alumni and Development
Major ±«Óãtv award helps Floridians better navigate health care
The ±«Óãtv College of Public Health (COPH) understands and can guide people through the maze that is America’s health care system. How? The college has received a major federal grant to educate and enroll Florida citizens for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, through the Health Insurance Marketplace and other qualified health plans such Medicaid and CHIP.
August 30, 2024Awards and Honors, College News
Tintometer’s Journey to Enhanced Workplace Safety
Tintometer is a renowned supplier of technical instruments and reagents. It serves distributors across North, South, and Central America. The company's story begins with a former employee who introduced Tintometer to the OSHA On-site Consultation Program.
August 28, 2024±«Óãtv SafetyFlorida
COPH honors 356 graduates both virtually and in person
The ±«Óãtv College of Public Health (COPH) celebrated the 2024 spring graduates virtually and in person on August 3.
August 26, 2024Student Life
COPH alumna weaves a career connected by public health
The journey of ±«Óãtv College of Public Health (COPH) alumnus Cami Leech Florio is a tapestry, where each thread—every decision, experience and degree— has been interwoven to create a meaningful and whole career connected by public health.
August 22, 2024Alumni and Development
COPH student balances motherhood, career and passion for public health
For Angel Turner, a mother of four and a bachelor’s in public health student at the COPH, education is more than just an academic pursuit—it’s a testament to resilience and determination. Born and raised in Tampa, Turner has faced numerous challenges on her journey but continues to excel both as a student and a mother.
August 22, 2024Student Life
In new scientific paper, COPH professor discusses role of hormones in environmental change
We often take for granted the long-term impact that people have on the environment, much less how our ecological wear-and-tear changes the way creatures in the wild cope and evolve over time.
August 22, 2024Research and Innovation
In memoriam of Dr. Stanley Graven
Dr. Stanley Graven, COPH founding faculty member and pioneer in the development of neonatology and the regionalization of neonatal care in the United States, passed away on July 8, 2024, in Dallas, Oregon.
August 22, 2024College News
Undergraduate students advance career learning through a corridor of support
Kiara Perez-Cans wants to be an oncologist. As a 19-year-old ±«Óãtv junior majoring in health sciences, she knows the time, effort, and cost in getting there will be daunting.
August 22, 2024Research and Innovation, Student Life
COPH graduate focuses on effects of climate change on Native American tribes
Climate change forms a gamut of shifting patterns: a warming atmosphere, rising seas, more intense storms, flash flooding, forest fires, even migrating insects that affect crops. Depending on where you live, these variations can be negligible or dramatic − and in some cases, deadly − if people aren’t prepared.
August 22, 2024Research and Innovation, Student Life