Since 1990, Kay Perrin has held faculty appointments at the University of South Florida College of Public Health in the Department of Community and Family Health, and currently is an Assistant Professor expected to go up for promotion and tenure next year. She is the Co-Principal Investigator for the department's Maternal-Child Health Leadership Training Grant, as well as the Co-PI on two major research grants. Until November 2002, she held the position of Secretary for ATMCH, is actively involved in at the local level with the Healthy Start Coalition, the Tampa Bay Area March of Dimes, and the Hillsborough County Network on Adolescent Pregnancy. Since 2000, she has served as P.I. for the Evaluation of Pinellas County Federal Healthy Start Project for $70,000, the National Evaluation of the March of Dimes Comenzando Bien Program for $110,000, and the Curriculum Development for the WAGES Coalition of Hillsborough County for $25,000. She has published papers on adolescent pregnancy and most recently was awarded a competitive university faculty grant to assess the Hillsborough County Teen Pregnancy Community Initiative. She currently serves as co-P.I. on two important research projects with budgets totaling close to $3 million. One of these, "Assessing the Range of Impacts of HPV-related Diagnoses," is a three-year study funded by the ASPH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The other, "Evaluation of the Florida Health Literacy Study," is a two-year project funded by Pfizer, Inc., which investigates the implementation of low literacy English and Spanish patient education materials related to diabetes and hypertension in 28 community health centers across Florida. In addition, Dr. Perrin carries a full teaching and advising load in the department's Maternal and Child Health program. She regularly teaches two required courses for MPH students, Maternal and Child Health I and II and several support courses including Adolescent Health, Introduction to Research Methods, MCH Ethics and several web-based Internet undergraduate courses.