Dr. Ellen Daley is an Associate Professor in Community and Family Health at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. Dr. Daley's teaching and research interests are in women's health, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections (specifically Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection), adolescents and health risk-taking behaviors.

These related interests began when Dr. Daley became involved with the Women's Health Movement in the early 1970's, and continued through the organization of several women's health centers in New York, Michigan and Florida. A long-time activist and advocate of women's reproductive health rights and equality in research, Dr. Daley now directs several research projects related to improving women's health issues. From 2002-2005, she directed a study for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that assessed the impact of an HPV-related diagnosis in women who are at increased risk of cervical cancer. She is now the Principal Investigator of a study for the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that assesses the cognitive and emotional responses to an HPV diagnosis in men (R01 CA123346-01), a longitudinal study that will take place through 2011. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator of an innovative study that approaches women’s health through the oral/systemic connection of health – a truly transdisciplinary approach that involves collaborators from across USF and other state universities in Florida.

Dr. Daley also directs another research and training project in conjunction with USF Health faculty and the Area Health Education Center (AHEC), called The Women's Health Collaborative, a research and training program in the Colleges of Public Health and Medicine at the University of South Florida, and a variety of special projects related to the effects of intimate partner violence against women.

Dr. Daley is a Core Faculty Member of CRUSH, the Collaborative for Research in Understanding Sexual Health, along with Drs. Eric Buhi, Julie Baldwin, Stephanie Marhefka and Cheryl Vamos. In addition to her research interests, Dr. Daley teaches various graduate level courses in women's health, reproductive health population and community health, and directs an undergraduate course on women's health. Dr. Daley also serves as the Certificate Program Director for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Women's Health, a program that she developed in conjunction with faculty across the USF campus, encompassing four colleges and 9 departments.