Leadership Department Chair Vice Chairs and Associate Deans Division Chiefs Education Program Directors Department Chair Howard Hu - MD, MPH, ScD Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences; Flora L. Thornton Chair in Preventive Medicine 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 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 & Public Health Sciences; Dr. Arthur and Priscilla Ulene Chair in Women's Cancer; Vice Chair for Research, Preventive Medicine; Associate Director for Cancer Equity Roberta McKean-Cowdin - PhD Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences (Educational Scholar) Anna Wu-Williams - PhD Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences 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; Division Chief for the Division of Health Behavior Research (HBR) 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 Elahe Nezami - PhD Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences and Medical Education (Educational Scholar); Director, Health Promotion and Global Health Programs; Director, Global Medicine Program (MSGM) 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 and Urology; the Ira Goodman Chair in Cancer Research; Associate Director for Population Science at USC NCCC Heather Wipfli - PhD Professor of Clinical Population & Public Health Sciences and International Relations Mellissa Withers - PhD, MHS Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences; Co-Director for the MPH Online Program
