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Classroom to career: Launching public health futures at COPH
From her roots on a Florida farm to the front lines of global disease elimination at USF’s College of Public Health, Dr. Kristi Miley has carved a path in public health. With three USF degrees — a PhD in global communicable diseases, an MSPH in global communicable diseases and a BS in biomedical sciences— Miley has transformed her lifelong connection to animals and the natural world into a career devoted to infectious disease research, medical entomology and public health education.
April 28, 2025Alumni and Development, Global - Environmental - Genomic Health Sciences, Research and Innovation

COPH alumni receives USF's outstanding young alumni award
Introducing USF's 2025 Award Recipients for the Outstanding Young Alumni award! Stefania Alastre Arcusa, Cell and Molecular Biology ’17 and MSPH ’21
April 11, 2025Alumni and Development, Awards and Honors, Community Health Sciences

Genomic research may be key to understanding cancer resistance in Tasmanian devils
Over the past 30 years, Australia’s Tasmanian devil population has been afflicted with an infectious cancer. Through DNA sequencing of the animals and their tumors, USF Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Mark Margres and MSPH in genomics alumnus Dylan Gallinson have tracked the genomic interactions between the devils and the cancer.
May 28, 2024