From Australia to Asia and places in between, both graduate and undergraduate students had the opportunity this summer to experience public health around the globe with the COPH.

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USF Health’s international and interprofessional collaborations continue through a recent trip to Gifu University in Japan and Seoul National University in Korea.

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Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have greatly decreased deaths caused by Plasmodium falciparum malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that accounts for roughly 90 percent of the world’s malaria mortality. But Plasmodium falciparum is becoming increasingly resistant to ACTs, making an already dangerous parasite even more threatening.

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Lyme disease affects more than 300,000 people annually in the U.S. How can we predict when and where disease prevalence will be highest? Understanding the dynamics between ticks, mice and their habitats may provide important clues.

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From improving water quality to advancing mental health care to pursuing new treatments for Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease, 22 USF faculty members are being recognized next month with Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Awards.

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According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average amount of student debt incurred by a person with a PhD (outside of education) now sits at about $98,000. Dr. Catherine Bulka applied for and received an loan forgiveness award in the Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health subcategory.

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Since childhood, COPH grad Shahrzad Zamani was interested in what makes people sick and how to prevent it. However, it wasn’t until her second year of undergraduate school at USF taking biology classes that her path narrowed to public health.  

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