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International Field Experience Home in Albrook, Republic of Panama More. . . USF Health International Foundation Opens in Panama  The USF Health International Foundation officially opened its doors in Panama June 2, 2008. Their mission: to increase collaboration in education, research and patient care between USF faculty and students and Panama, as well as other health professionals and organizations throughout the region.
The Department of Community and Family Health, University of South Florida College of Public Health, announces International Health Education (PHC 6765) also known as the 10th Annual Health Education and Injury Prevention Field Course and Conference in Germany to be held during the summer term 2008, May 8-18th. More. . . For more information on USF’s AIDS Week activities, please contact Jordan Markel, President of the Student Global AIDS Campaign at USF, at 813-900-9003.
China visit to USF: Mr. Shixing Wu, Consul of Education (shown speaking with Dr. DeBaldo) and Mr. Changsong Ren, Consul, from the Chinese Consulate General in Houston came to USF to meet with representatives from USF, Tampa and Tampa’s Chinese community and to discuss a proposed Confucius Institute. Also pictured are Dean Donna Petersen, Dr. Victor Peppard, Chair of World Languages, Dean María Crummett of International Affairs (IAC) and Dr. Dajin Peng, Government and International Affairs who were there to promote the proposed Institute as well.
“21st Century Grand Global Challenges” was Dr. Haile T. Debas’ theme for the Dean's Lecture Series this past week. Dr. Debas, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences and Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Medical Affairs University California, San Francisco discussed the meteoric rise of interest in Global Health among universities, the private sector and funding agencies. More. . . Magellan BioScience Group, Inc. (Magellan), a pioneer in innovative drug discovery and development from marine microbial sources, will team with USF scientists Drs. Dennis Kyle and Alberto Van Olphen of the Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, and Dr. Bill Baker of the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences in a new multidisciplinary drug discovery collaboration for novel anti-malarial drugs. More. . . http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=176 COPH Masters International Peace Corps student Zac Dreaden has been working in Cuerpo de Paz, Yantzaza – Zamora in Ecuador for nearly a year, at the Hospital Cantonal Yantzaza. “Peace Corps is what you make of it and most of that has to do with changing your own behaviors and views, “ More. . . Students experience challenge of global health fieldwork Dr. Wayne Westhoff and Dr. Jaime Corvin of the Department of Global Health, USF College of Public Health, traveled to the Dominican Republic to work with local communities this May on a yearly academic and field study with public health students Brian Cull, Juan Santiago and Rebecca Sorenson. More. . . http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=165
The visiting delegation from the University of Malaysia –Sarawak (UNIMAS) met with a range of USF faculty this past week to promote continued academic/research exchanges of faculty and potential doctoral students across campus, to operationalize a proposed USF-UNIMAS Research Center based at UNIMAS and to outline research opportunities across USF-UNIMAS campus. These opportunities cover such public health issues as SARS, Avian Flu, Malaria, Dengue, Parasitic Infections, HI/AIDS. The delegation included Professor Dr. Mohd Azib Salleh, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & Internationalization); Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Taha Ariffin, Dean of Medical and Health Sciences; Professor Dr. Peter Songan, Dean, Centre for Applied Learning and Multimedia; and Associate Professor Dr. Kasing Apun, Head, International Relations Unit.
Paul Farmer’s talk on Social justice and global health equity: The PIH experience in Haiti, Rwanda, and Lesotho March 28, 2007 is available via:
>> New opportunities in educational exchange, research and development with Chinese institutions -- Dean of USF International Affairs 玛丽亚 克鲁麦特 博士 (María Crummett) and Associate Dean for International Programs 安 . 狄百多 博士 (Ann DeBaldo) visited China in December, 2006. >>IT and Public Health in India -- It all began in the fall of 2004 when seven Indian students sat in a classroom in Hinjawadi, India and listened to their first College of Public Health lecture. >>Violence against Nurses — Dr. Marti Coulter (CFH) and Drs. Wendy Nembhard, Kathleen O’Rourke, Heather Stockwell and Yiliang Zhu (EPB) represented the College of Public Health at the 11th World Congress on Public Health held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. >> Maternal Health and Women in Afghanistan - Although Dr. Moussada Jalal, former Interim Minister of Women's Affairs, Afghanistan, was unable to come to USF as planned to discuss maternal health and women's situation in Afghanistan, she did the next best thing. Nancy Delahoya, a USF COPH alumna, MPH in Environmental Health (2003) taped Dr. Jalal in an interview in Afghanistan and sent her special message to us in Tampa. Watch Video: Clip 1 | Clip 2 | Clip 3 | Clip 4 | Clip 5 >> The Indian and U.S. governments renewed the Indo-U.S. Collaboration in Environmental and Occupational Health for another five years, and the USF College of Public Health recently named COPH Dean Donna Petersen, ScD, as a senior consultant to its Joint Working Group. For more information on the Indo-U.S. meetings’ focus on urbanization and motor vehicle injury, social and economic problems in India and the US, click here.
Monteverde’s huge ecotourism industry is contributing to environmental damage, combined with the lack infrastructure to support the rapidly growing population. Her survey results “showed that over 95% of respondents were in favor of a waste water treatment plant. At this time there is no sewer system in Monteverde and most waste water either flows into the streets or into septic pits,” Ms. Nasrallah explained. “The community residents were worried about the future implications of the grey water running through the streets. A local microbiologist also found an increase of parasites in the local rivers, which is a red flag for contamination.” About 60% of respondents had recently taken antiparasitic medications. While there, the students also assessed blood pressures, glucose, ht/wt, and skin fold measurements as volunteers at a health fair. ¿Qué pasa? How many languages does our faculty speak? Twenty-nine COPH faculty members responding to the 2006 international survey indicated other languages they spoke, aside from English. . . Colleen Reinert, MPH and Peace Corps recruiter at USF, nominated the most Peace Corps volunteers in the Eastern region this year: 25. The Vaccinology and Infectology in the Tropics Conference held this June in Panama, was a great success, according to its more than 300 participants.
International Interest and Experience Survey
New Public Health Foundation of India Dr. Ann DeBaldo, Associate Dean and Associate VP for International Programs, was recently honored as invited USF College of Public Health representative at the Public Health Foundation of India's inauguration in New Delhi, March 28.
This spring, USF Health International Programs surveyed faculty in the Colleges of Public Health, Nursing, Medicine and Physical Therapy to capture an overall picture of our international involvement for future international programming. Over forty COPH faculty indicated an interest in exploring collaborative research, projects or linkages. In response, we documented their experience (for example on the world map) and will be gathering those interested faculty to feed back these responses received and discuss the international strengths, opportunities and choices ahead. All USF campuses implemented this survey through the International Affairs Center, so that we'll also be able to integrate and build on university-wide links and activities. A total of 410 faculty members responded, recounting an astounding range of activity. In COPH alone, examples ran from teaching in the department of epidemiology and economics at the Veterinary Faculty Sarajevo in Bosnia on epidemiology projects - to studying school-aged children in rural China on their health insurance, access, behavior, and outcomes - to working in the Americas in zoonoses and emerging diseases; information and surveillance systems, diagnostic laboratory networks, and on environmental health indicators. Country-specific information gleaned from the survey is available on the Research and Practice website page on the Research around the world map. Congratulations to three COPH Fulbright-PAHO Interns in Public Health
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India visit to USF: Dr. Indira Chakravarty, Dean and Director of the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Kolkata, India received an exuberant welcome at USF Health and met with faculty in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, Dean María Crummett (IAC) and the Dean of Public Health. 
“We are all very proud of your accomplishments!” Dr. Karen Liller said of the recently selected College of Public Health (COPH) interns for the new Fulbright- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Internship in Public Health. This is an initiative bringing five Fulbright students in Public Health from Latin America and the Caribbean to PAHO headquarters in Washington, D.C. for a summer internship in 2006. Three of the five are USF COPH/ Masters of Public Health Fulbright students. In center: Dr. Erika Arteaga (Fulbright student-Ecuador, Global Health, MPH); Dr. Rachel Cassagnol (Fulbright student-Haiti Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MPH), Dr. Abraham Salinas (Fulbright student-Nicaragua, Child and Family Health, MPH) at the PAHO launching in February, 2006