Public Health News
USF researcher addresses a growing crisis: Health care worker burnout
Imagine you’re a nurse or emergency responder in Florida when an outbreak of infectious disease collides with the aftermath of a hurricane.
December 12, 2025Community Health Sciences, Research and Innovation, Student Life
Converting an internship to fellowship
Rajkotwala graduated from the COPH in May with a bachelor of science in public health, a concentration in global health and minors in environmental health and infection control. She credits faculty at the COPH with nurturing her interests. It was also at COPH where she first heard about the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) internship.
November 20, 2025Alumni and Development
Remembering Dr. Yehia Y. Hammad
Dr. Yehia Y. Hammad passed away Nov. 18, 2025. For more than fifty years, Hammad advanced the fields of environmental and occupational health. He served as chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and as a longtime professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health.
December 1, 2025College News