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MPH Student Creates Powerful Public Health Visuals

MPH student Alexandra Rodriguez led a project using powerful visuals designed to inspire UF students to learn about vaccine safety and get vaccinated to protect themselves and their communities. During the launch event, students had the opportunity to get COVID and flu shots from UF HealthStreet along with…

MPH Students Volunteer with Dixie County DOH

MPH Students Sarah Chance, Niccole Smith, and Johanna Lucas volunteered with the Dixie County Department of Health for their HealthFest. The HealthFest was organized by the Florida Department of Health particularly for underserved populations to gain access to health screenings from local partners, like UF HealthStreet. This was…

Q & A with Alum Steven Gold

Steven Gold is the current CEO of Refresh Mental Health and a 2002 Juris Doctor JD/MPH combination degree graduate. Steven’s MPH concentration was Epidemiology, the same concentration as his mother who graduated from the Yale School of Public Health after completing her undergraduate education at the University of…

MPH Alumni Connect During CDC Deployment

The information below is taken from the original PHHP Alumni post here, written by Katarina Fiorentino, BHS Communication Sciences and Disorders The Gator Nation is everywhere – including the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement Emergency Intake Site in El Paso,…

Giovanna Mompremier: 2022 UF Hall of Fame Inductee

Giovanna Mompremier, an MPH-Empdemiology student, is a 2022 member of the UF Hall of Fame. Since 1921, the University of Florida Hall of Fame has recognized seniors and graduate/professional students who have consistently demonstrated an outstanding commitment to improving the University of Florida through campus and community involvement,…

2022 MPH Superior Accomplishment Award Winners

Two of the eight College of Public Health and Health Professions employees named as UF Superior Accomplishment Award winners in the Health Science Center division are members of the MPH population! To read about all eight of the winners, click here. The Superior Accomplishment Awards recognize…

2021 PHHP Employees of the Year

The College of Public Health and Health Professions recognized Zoe Martusewicz and Aubrey Bonsal as two of the college’s 2021 Employees of the Year! Zoe Martusewicz is a current MPH student who also works as an Administrative Support Assistant in the Department of Epidemiology. Aubrey…

UF at APHA Annual Conference

The UF MPH program was well represented at the 2021 APHA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO this October!  The booth had many visitors, drawn in by the stress-gators!  Many of the MPH faculty attended and presented at the APHA Annual Meeting.  We hope to see everyone in Boston next year!…

CEPH Accreditation

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions was first accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) in 2009 and has been continuously accredited ever since.  The college was most recently re-accredited by CEPH in 2021, after completing the self-study report…