Jennie White presents a new method for deriving thresholds of toxicological concern

  On April 30, Jennie White successfully defended her dissertation proposal “Development of a Novel Method for Deriving Thresholds of Toxicological Concern (TTCs) for Vaccine Constituents” to her committee and members of the toxicology program.  Ms. White conducted her research at the Division for Vaccines and Related Products Applications (DVRPA) within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For more than 20 years, the Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) used TTCs as regulatory limits for food contact materials. Numerous European regulatory agencies have adopted them as well. Ms. White’s [...]

Adejoke Ogunrinde shares her practice, her passion with CNN

Earlier this year Adejoke C. Ogunrinde, MBBS, joined Barbara Bush on CNN Newroom. The pair discussed their work with the Global Health Corps in New York. Ms. Ogunrinde is one of 90 fellows selected from a pool of more than 4,100 students. An international student from Lagos, Nigeria, Ogunrinde is assigned to the Children’s Health Fund as a research and quality improvement fellow. Two semesters into her one-year experience, she’s worked with “policy and advocacy, development, IT, communications, and medical affairs teams on different aspects of health service provision to [...]

College hosts First Bi-annual Geographic Iinformation System (GIS) student poster competition

In late April, the USF College of Public Health hosted the first Bi-annual Student GIS Poster Competition. Semiha Caliskan, a global health instructor, coordinated the event for students in HSC 4933— Introduction to Public Health Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  As instructor for the course, she challenged her introductory level students to apply the knowledge and skills they acquired this semester in a GIS themed poster competition. “The event was a great success with seven student poster entries,” said Ms. Caliskan.  “Countless faculty, staff, and students stopped by to show their [...]

Elizabeth Baker and Latrice Holt hone their leadership skills in Chicago

Public health graduate students Elizabeth Baker, MPH, CPH and Latrice Holt earned awards to attend the 2013 Making Leadership Connections Conference. Held April 4-5 in Chicago, the gathering served as an interdisciplinary leadership meeting for Maternal and Child Health Bureau Trainees.   Ms. Baker and Holt are scholars in the Maternal and Child Leadership Training Program. Housed in the Department of Community and Family Health, the MCH training program provides leadership training in MCH that focuses on promoting health equity through an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that is culturally competent [...]