Ellen M. Daley, Ph.D.
Education and History
Came to USF
2001
Education
BA, State University of New York, 1976
MPH, University of Michigan, 1980
PhD, University of South Florida, 2000
Discipline
Maternal & Child Health
Specialization
Women's Health
Adolescent Health
Sexuality Education
STD Prevention
Contraceptive Use
Other Information
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Dr.
Ellen Daley, the Associate Dean for Research and Practice, is a
Professor at the College of Public Health. Dr. Daley is a behavioral researcher
with interests in women's health, health literacy, reproductive health, Human
Papillomavirus (HPV) prevention, adolescent health and health risk-taking
behaviors.
These
related interests began when Dr. Daley became involved with the Women's Health
Movement (WHM) in the 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 is the Associate Director for Women’s Health at the Chiles Center, a
nationally recognized and innovative center that was created to address health
issues of women, children and families.
Dr.
Daley’s role as Associate Dean is to create and sustain a cohort-based doctoral
training program at the USF College of Public Health that bridges the two major
activities of Public Health: research
addressed at improving the nations’ health at a population level, and practice, which is “public health on the
ground.” Groups of PhD and DrPH students will be encouraged to work together to
improve both the training, the practice and the future of Public Health. In
addition, these students will be given opportunities to work with our community
partners to collaborate on practical, real-world interventions and solutions.
Prior
to becoming an Associate Dean, Dr. Daley served as the Chair of the College of
Public Health’s Research Committee, the Co-Director of the Center for
Transdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (CTR-WH), and as a Core Faculty
Member of CRUSH, the Collaborative for Research in Understanding Sexual Health,
along with Drs. Stephanie Marhefka and Cheryl Vamos.
Dr. Daley 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. Also in
conjunction with the colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy in USF Health,
Dr. Daley created and supervised a research and training program called The
Women's Health Collaborative. This long-standing program brought together teams
of graduate students from across disciplines to address health care issues
among marginalized and uninsured women.
Dr.
Daley has directed several large 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 is currently directing 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 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 sits on national advisory boards for the HPV vaccine and for women’s
health curriculum, and on state advisory boards for cancer research and
control. 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. ATMCH is dedicated to promoting excellence
and innovation in teaching among faculty and graduate students.