Leadership Department Chair Vice Chairs and Associate Deans Division Chiefs Education Program Directors Department Chair Howard Hu - MD, MPH, ScD Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences Vice Chairs and Associate Deans I focus on developing, implementing and testing culturally and community based interventions to reduce health inequities in diverse communities. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati - PhD, MPH Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences\Associate Dean for Community Initiatives\Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement Ricky Bluthenthal - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences; Associate Dean for Social Justice Chanita Hughes Halbert - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences\Vice Chair for Research, Population and Public Health Sciences\Associate Director for Cancer Equity Roberta McKean-Cowdin - PhD Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Vice Chair of Education for Population and Public Health Sciences, Educational Scholar Anna Wu-Williams - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Vice Chair for Faculty Development Division Chiefs Applying mobile and wearable technologies to build theories and design interventions promoting physical activity and dietary change. Genevieve Dunton - PhD, MPH Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences & Psychology, Chief of Division of Health Behavior Research I develop novel statistical methods and apply them to discover novel risk factors for cancer, respiratory disease, and other complex health outcomes. William Gauderman - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences My work seeks to understand and address the harmful impacts of law, policy and other structural factors on health outcomes. Sofia Gruskin - JD, MIA Director, Institute on Inequalities in Global Health; Professor, Population and Public Health Sciences (Keck); Professor, Law (Gould) Christopher Haiman - ScD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences; AFLAC Chair in Cancer Research Rob McConnell - MD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences Paul Thomas - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences; Director, Division of Bioinformatics; Director of the Gene Sequence, Function, and Health Laboratory Initiative Education Program Directors Amie Hwang - PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences;Director of Master of Public Health Program (MPH) Elahe Nezami - PhD Emeritus Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences (Educational Scholar) Cecilia Patino Sutton - PhD, MD, MeD Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences (Educational Scholar) Trevor Pickering - PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences I try to understand the behavior of cancer cells and how cancers grow. Kimberly Siegmund - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences I want to contribute to reducing the cancer burden among Hispanic and Black individuals by identifying risk factors and improving cancer outcomes. Mariana Stern - PhD Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences Ira Goodman Chair in Cancer Research Associate Director of Population Science, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Heather Wipfli - PhD Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences and International Relations; Director of the Health Promotions Undergraduate Program Mellissa Withers - PhD, MHS Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences;Director for the MPH Online Program
