Lihua Liu, an associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, has been named the director and principal investigator of USC’s Cancer Surveillance Program (CSP). Established by faculty members in USC’s Department of Population and Public Health Sciences in...
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and professor of preventive medicine, has been appointed to The Lancet’s Gender and Global Health Commission. Gruskin is among 25 independent...
Adam Leventhal and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula On Thursday at 1 p.m., join Adam Leventhal, PhD, Director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science, and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD, Senior Fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center, for a discussion, “The Intersection of Two...
Professors from the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences recently received 2020 USC Mentoring Awards. Raina Pang, PhD, Jessica Barrington-Trimis, PhD and Michael Cousineau, DPH were recognized for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Students, Faculty...
Sabrina Smiley grew up in Selma, Alabama, fully aware of its importance in the civil rights struggle in this country. “I feel like my passion for health equity and social justice stems from me being from Selma,” she said of the city where, in 1965, black...
The USC community will gather online Friday morning for an intercampus commemoration of Juneteenth, a day of reflection and celebration of Black heritage. It will include student tributes, artistic performances and more. The event begins at 11 a.m. and can be...
Adam Leventhal, PhD, professor of preventive medicine and psychology and director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science and Health, Emotion & Addiction Laboratory (HEAL), has been appointed to the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory...
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, has been selected as the new chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, effective July 1. Hu was the Founding Dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of...
Public Health Career Services in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences offers online resume review to students in the form of VMock, an innovative tool that uses artificial intelligence to provide feedback on resumes, instantly, 24/7. The...
Keck School of Medicine will award scholarships of up to $20,000 to selected qualifying incoming master's students starting in Fall 2020. The scholarship opportunities were created to reduce the financial burden on students earning a Master of Science or Master of...
The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC is set to launch a new Master of Science in Public Health Data Science in fall 2020. An integration of biostatistics and computer science, the program is a response to the...
Seven departments at Keck School of Medicine USC are in the top 10 nationally in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to the rankings of medical schools released for the 2019 federal fiscal year. The Department of Population and Public...