The University of South Florida announced that it is naming its College of Public Health Building after the Honorable Samuel P. Bell, III. Bell, who passed away on March 14, is considered the “father” of USF’s College of Public Health and was a longtime champion of USF and Florida residents.

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The COPH announced it has received a $100,000 gift from Florida Healthy Kids to establish an endowed fund in honor of the late Samuel P. “Sam” Bell, the college’s founder.

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Your COPH colleagues are excited to see you at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in Atlanta. We want to celebrate with all of you participating in the largest gathering of public health scholars and professionals in the country!

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LGBTQ+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their same-age heterosexual or cisgender peers, and experts say it’s not their sexual orientation or gender identity that ups their suicide risk but the isolation and stigma they feel because of discrimination against it.

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Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by snail-transmitted flatworms that affects some 200 million people worldwide. Doctoral student Caitlin Wolfe recently co-authored a study examining how removing vegetation that acts as a habitat for the snails can reduce rates of the disease.

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The COPH staff working on the recently launched, interdisciplinary Disease Intervention Specialist Training Academy has received a USF Outstanding Staff Award.

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Born in Los Angeles, COPH alum Nicole Stokes Zolkos grew up in Tampa since she was 3 years old and calls herself a “Tampanian.” She has found an unlikely marriage of public health and financial planning, and it works. 

 

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