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Major Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app award helps Floridians better navigate health care
The Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app 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, 2024Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app SafetyFlorida
COPH honors 356 graduates both virtually and in person
The Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app 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 Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app 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 Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app 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
Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app names new dean for the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Health College of Public Health
Dr. Sten Vermund will join Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app in January, bringing decades of infectious disease epidemiology and prevention experience.
August 12, 2024College News
The COPH celebrates Dr. Skai Schwartz after 29 years of teaching
After nearly three decades at the COPH, Dr. Skai Schwartz, associate professor, will retire this August. Schwartz, known for her expertise in both classical statistics and epidemiologic methods, has significantly contributed to the field through her research, teaching and mentorship.
August 12, 2024College News
COPH expert works to save lives by improving disaster preparedness and recovery
Dr. Amber Mehmood was in Karachi in October 2005 when she heard news of the Combined Military Hospital in Muzaffarabad – or what was left of it. The medical staff was caring for patients in 256 beds when the unthinkable happened.
August 9, 2024College News