
Donna J. Petersen, Sc.D., M.H.S., C.P.H., the interim senior vice president for USF Health and dean of the University of South Florida College of Public Health, will present “Framing the Future: From National Debate to Local Action” on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. in the Communicore building, room C1-9, as part of PHHP’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series.
A member of the USF faculty since 2004, Petersen is the author of numerous publications, book chapters and a textbook on needs assessment in public health. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to maternal and child health, health care reform, and systems change and leadership, and has provided extensive technical assistance and training to more than 25 state health departments in the areas of needs assessment, data system development, systems level accountability and the development of population-based indicators.
She has served on numerous boards, commissions and task forces and is the editor emerita of the Maternal and Child Health Journal, founding member and past president of the National Board of Public Health Examiners, chair of the Council on Education for Public Health and chair-elect of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. She is leading the Framing the Future Task Force on the future of education in public health and is a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Systems and Services Research Initiative.
Petersen’s talk is hosted by the PHHP dean’s office. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series brings some of the nation’s top health professions and public health researchers to the University of Florida campus.