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- Advocates working to prevent youth gun violence in Florida say they need more help
- Freddy Barton honored as Lightning Community Hero
- HEF teams up with Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Community Partners to expand our mentoring program
- Dismantling the "School-to-Prison-Pipeline" Panel Discussion
- Tampa Bay nonprofits serving black boys and men see hope but more to do
- Local organization holds listening session for city, county and state leaders in wake of protests
Micah Johnson, Ph.d.
- Overdosed: Inside Tampa Bay's fentanyl crisis featuring Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, Dr. Micah Johnson, and Dr. Khary Rigg
- Local activist pleased with local police reform efforts, say more work is needed
- Tampa activist encourages protestors to send message the right way
- Panel discusses mental illness stigma facing minorities
- Challenging conventional definitions of patriotism
Karen Liller, ph.d.
- Advocation-Change it Up! Podcast Episode on Structural Racism and the Law
- Advocation-Change it Up! Podcast Episode on Structural Racism and its Effects on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Violence, and other Public Health Issues
- Amid pandemic, East Tampa faces what experts consider another public health crisis: gun violence
- Another Worrying Side Effect of Covid-19: More Guns
Joan Reid, ph.d.
- USF St. Pete professor heads effort for new statewide human trafficking database
- USF creates first centralized human trafficking incident database
- Florida is third worst state in U.S. for sex-trafficking, two local criminology professors look at why
- What Can Be Done to Prevent Sex-Trafficking of Girls in Foster Care?
- Exposure to Violence Tied to Risk of Teen Gun Possession
Khary Rigg, ph.d.
- MHLP associate professor joins National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative
- With Teen Fentanyl Deaths on the Rise, We Need to Rethink Who Delivers Drug Prevention Programs
- The Black opioid crisis reveals that barriers to treatment must come down
- Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse Newsletter. Div. 28 research spotlight
- Overdosed: Inside Tampa Bay's fentanyl crisis featuring Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, Dr. Micah Johnson, and Dr. Khary Rigg
- Opioid Epidemic Falls in the Hands of Purdue Pharma
- Hillsborough takes first steps toward needle exchange pilot program
- The opioid epidemic: Hillsborough County, USF thought leaders look for solutions
ChrisTine Ruva, Ph.d.
- Intense media coverage of Jennifer Dulos case may influence potential jurors, expert testifies
- Expert witness: Media painted negative picture of Michelle Troconis
- Dr. Christine Ruva and colleagues submit amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding pre-trial publicity-related bias in the Boston Marathon Bombing case. Read the Brief of Shirin Bakhshay, Tarika Daftary-Kapur, Yael Danieli, Angela Jones, Margaret Bull Kovera, Steven D. Penrod & Christine L. Ruva in Support of Respondent