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Connecting Kids to Coverage names new director
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has named Lawanda Davis the new program director/principal investigator of the Connecting Kids to Coverage (CKC) program, housed within the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app College of Public Health.
December 5, 2023Awards and Honors
COPH holds Length of Service ceremony honoring 32 people for a combined 450 years of service
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app College of Public Health (COPH) Dean Donna Petersen welcomed students, staff, faculty and others to the Sam Bell Auditorium on Nov. 17 to celebrate the 32 COPH staff members and faculty who reached anniversary milestones in 2023.
December 1, 2023Awards and Honors
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app researchers help reduce lead levels in Madagascar drinking water
By combining efforts to replace water pumps and educate city technicians, Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app researchers helped decrease the blood lead levels of 87 percent of the children tested during their study.
November 16, 2023Research and Innovation
Safety Culture: The Key to a Safe and Secure Workplace
Many of us have been appointed to manage programs and teams. We have enough experience to know when our key performance indicators are lagging and adjustments are needed to meet the quarter, year, or function goal.
October 13, 2023Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
What's wrong with this picture?
Hazard identification and assessment within the workplace are critical elements of an effective safety and health program. Luis Silva, our Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida contributor for October, provides insight into the proper storage of oxygen cylinders, as pictured in the above photo.
October 13, 2023Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
The building that houses the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app’s College of Public Health will now bear the name of the school’s founder, the late legislator and advocate Sam Bell.
October 10, 2023College News, In the Media
Education, training and continuous improvement elements of safety and health management system (SHMS): Part 4 of 4
Education and Training aim to ensure that all workers receive appropriate and effective training in a language and literacy level they understand to do their work safely before performing assigned tasks, changes in assigned tasks, and changes in the workplace. While the appropriateness of the training refers to how well it covers the potential hazards in the workplace and the controls needed for each job, its effectiveness refers to how well workers understand and behave to protect themselves and others from potential hazards.
July 19, 2023Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
Protect workers from indoor and outdoor heat
What first comes to your mind when thinking about occupational heat hazards? Many will think about outdoor work in the summertime. The 2023 summer season has greeted us with extreme heat advisories, watches, and warnings. By late June, more than a third, or 36% of the U.S. population, was covered by one of these heat alerts on a single day! You don’t need to wait until June or be outside to consider heat when developing your job hazard analysis (JHA).
July 10, 2023Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
Mental health in society and the workplace
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida Consultant Clarence Rodrigues discusses the impact of mental health on workers and how symptoms can be managed.
April 4, 2023Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
COPH introduces the Lifelong Learning Academy
The COPH is introducing a new way of learning and teaching beyond the degree programs. The COPH Lifelong Learning Academy was developed in response to proposed legislation to address public health workforce gaps, including positions required to prevent, prepare for and respond to public health emergencies
June 13, 2022College News
Salud Latina Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app combats misinformation in Spanish
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app College of Public Health faculty members have come together to provide credible public health messages and combat misinformation in Spanish.
September 27, 2021College News
PhD in genomics program welcomes first student
COPH student Jan Dahrendorff graduated this past summer with his MSPH in genomics. He’ll be taking the next step as the first student to enter the newly established genomics PhD program.
August 23, 2021College News