Ellen Daley, PhD, MPH

Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

Senior Associate Dean, Research and Practice

Director, the Chiles Center

Contact Info

• Office: LRC 132
• Academic Email: edaley@usf.edu
• Academic Phone: (813) 974-8518
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Education

Discipline

Maternal & Child Health

Specialization

• Women's Health
• Adolescent Health
• Sexuality Education
• STD Prevention
• Contraceptive Use

Biography

Dr. Ellen Daley, the Senior Associate Dean for Research and Practice, is a Professor at the College of Public Health. She also serves as the Director of the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Women, Children and Families, a nationally recognized and innovative center that was created to address maternal and child health policy, practice and research. Dr. Daley is a behavioral researcher with interests in women's health, reproductive health, maternal and child health (MCH), adolescent health, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) prevention, health literacy, and health risk-taking behaviors. Prior to becoming the Senior Associate Dean, Dr. Daley served as the Chair of the College of Public Health’s Research Committee and the Co-Director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CTR-WH). Working in conjunction with the colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy in USF Health, Dr. Daley helped create and supervise a research and training program called The Women's Health Collaborative. This long-standing program supports innovative and interdisciplinary research awards for early career faculty across USF Health. She has mentored more than sixty PhD students and nine post-doctoral fellows, many of whom have progressed on to leadership positions in academia, research institutes and federal programs. A long-time activist and advocate for women's reproductive health rights, Dr. Daley has been a member of national advisory boards for women’s health curriculum and for the HPV vaccine. She has served on state advisory boards for cancer research and control, and on the college’s Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence, funded through the federal MCH Bureau. She also is the past-President of the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH) – a national organization that serves as the academic arm of MCH programs across the U.S. Dr. Daley has directed 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 has also directed a large study for the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that assessed the cognitive and emotional responses to an HPV diagnosis in men (R01 CA123346-01). She completed an NIH-funded research project on HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers, and the role of health literacy in the prevention of those cancers. She has planned and implemented innovative research studies that approach 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.