Center for Global Health and Inter-Disciplinary Research
Overview
Global Health faculty of the GHIDR Center are located primarily on the 3rd and 4th floors of the IDRB building.
About Us
The USF Center for Global Health and Inter-Disciplinary Research (GHIDR) improves the health and lives of people afflicted by infectious diseases through the development of improved diagnostics, treatments and preventive mechanisms. GHIDR uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate vector-borne diseases of public health importance including malaria, leishmaniasis, dengue fever, viral encephalopathies, toxoplasmosis, onchocerciasis and filariasis. Our faculty, post-docs, staff and students participate in high profile epidemiological, drug discovery and developmental projects using a translational research approach that places particular emphasis on producing results directly applicable to infectious disease control and elimination and product innovation.
GHIDR is an interdisciplinary center for research and training that brings together faculty, students and staff from across USF to maximize natural collaborative interactions. Ongoing collaborations between our academic members and industrial scientists and engineers seek to advance modern approaches to biomolecular sciences for the purpose of identifying novel methods for disease diagnosis, prevention and treatment. Our faculty scientists form the core strength of the GHIDR center, providing both intellectual guidance and extramural funding for our multidisciplinary research. We have successfully obtained more than $42 million in extramural funding since 2007 from sources such as the NIH, Gates Foundation, MMV, MVI, Carter Center and pharmaceutical companies. These funds along with our exemplary research team members, world-class laboratories and global collaborative networks make the USF Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research a leader in vector-borne and tropical disease research.
Global Communicable Disease Graduate Program Information
Classroom to career: Launching public health futures at COPH
From her roots on a Florida farm to the front lines of global disease elimination at USF’s College of Public Health, Dr. Kristi Miley has carved a path in public health. With three USF degrees — a PhD in global communicable diseases, an MSPH in global communicable diseases and a BS in biomedical sciences— Miley has transformed her lifelong connection to animals and the natural world into a career devoted to infectious disease research, medical entomology and public health education.
Classroom to career: Launching public health futures at COPH
USF student aims to protect emergency responders
Most of us keep our distance from people with a cold, flu, COVID-19 or other nasty conditions, but what about those who meet them up close, often under stressful circumstances? How do first responders stay healthy in otherwise unhealthy places?
USF student aims to protect emergency responders
COPH doctoral students team up with WHO to examine eradication, control of neglected tropical diseases in Africa
Two COPH doctoral student teamed up to work with WHO to document the global health efforts in combating NTDs in Africa over the last decade.