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Plans are underway for the COPH to attend the 2021 APHA Annual Meeting in Denver. To aid with our planning, we want to know how are you participating in this year’s annual meeting? Click here to take our survey.
Federal and state governments have a duty to protect their citizens from public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. But how far can they legally go in fulfilling that obligation?
June is PTSD Awareness Month

A team of COPH genomics researchers and their counterparts at universities around the country recently published a paper looking at the effect social adversity and DNA methylation can have on the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder in an African American community.

COPH doctoral student and research assistant Dr. Marlene Joannie Bewa has earned the Faculty for the Future Fellowship.

Doctoral students Rashida Jones and Santiago Hernandez have earned recognition for the 2020-2021 Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the health, medicine and behavioral science category. 

The COPH Activist Lab received an Advocacy on Campuses That Impacts Our Nation (A.C.T.I.O.N.) grant from the American Public Health Association Student Assembly on March 8.

COPH grad Monica Beltran emigrated to the U.S. from Colombia when she was 11 years old and put herself through Rollins College in Orlando by working as a hotel housekeeper. 
Class Notes

Taylor Caragan, MPH, is the statewide health provider outreach specialist at Washington Communities for Children in Gig Harbor, Wash.

Daniel Heckeler, BSPH, is the senior engineering recruiter at The Fountain Group in Tampa, Fla.

Virginia Liddell, MPH, CPH, is a health communications fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Lauren Whiteman, MPH, CPH, is the overdose prevention manager at the Florida Department of Health in Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

A Health Minute with USF Health epidemiologist Jason Salemi, PhD, taking a hopeful look at 2021 with the COVID-19 vaccine.

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