From mock doctor to real doctor: Gabbidon fights for public health

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From mock doctor to real doctor: Gabbidon fights for public health

Dr. Kemesha Gabbidon helps prevent the spread of infectious disease as a community health advocate and postdoctoral research fellow at USF’s St. Petersburg campus. ST. PETERSBURG - As a young girl playing doctor in her hometown of Kingston, Jamaica, Kemesha Gabbidon’s patients only ever seemed to come down with two specific ailments: asthma, which Gabbidon herself suffered […]

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