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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 Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ’s College of Public Health, Dr. Kristi Miley has carved a path in public health. With three Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ 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.

April 28, 2025Alumni and Development, Research and Innovation

COPH and Healthy Start aim to improve the mental health of young people

Every child deserves a positive start in life, and a team at Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ’s College of Public Health (COPH), along with graduates from the school, want to point young people in right direction.

April 11, 2025Research and Innovation

Findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

April 11, 2025Research and Innovation

Global experts convene to explore the cutting-edge science of microbiomes

Experts from around the world recently gathered at Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health to talk about advances in the science of microbiomes.

March 28, 2025Research and Innovation

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ student gets to the heart of obesity

One in three Americans are overweight, which has created a crisis of life-threatening complications from obesity, such as high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and cardiac disease.

March 24, 2025Research and Innovation

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ researcher explores link between illness in pregnancy and cognitive development of newborns

Respiratory viruses are a major cause of early childhood illness, hospitalization and death around the world. Work by a team that includes a researcher at Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ’s College of Public Health (COPH) could lead to countless lives saved.

March 7, 2025Research and Innovation

Cannabis research board gets new member from COPH

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ has joined the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research as its 11th member. As part of this development, President Rhea Law nominated the College of Public Health’s (COPH) professor Dr. Troy Quast to be the university’s representative on the Consortium Board.

March 7, 2025Research and Innovation

COPH participates in record-breaking research day

More than 500 students, residents, trainees, faculty and leaders came together for the 35th annual Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health Research Day, the largest research-focused event at the Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ and the keynote celebration of health sciences research at the four Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health colleges.

March 7, 2025Awards and Honors, Research and Innovation, Student Life

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ 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?

February 24, 2025Research and Innovation, Student Life

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ researchers publish new genetic map of essential targets to defeat malaria

Malaria is an insidious disease, often slipping past our best defenses and killing an estimated 600,000 people a year around the world − 75 percent of whom are children barely five years old.

February 7, 2025Research and Innovation

Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ study brainstorms the good and bad of AI in curriculum design

It seems you can’t get through a day without seeing or reading something about artificial intelligence (AI), which tackles an ever-increasing variety of functions, from simple search engines to complex theoretical forecasts.

January 24, 2025Research and Innovation

H5N1: How worried should we be?

Experts from Ó£»¨ÊÓƵ Health and the Global Virus Network discuss the current avian influenza outbreak in poultry, dairy cattle and wild birds.

January 22, 2025Research and Innovation