Karyn Wong is a 2020 recipient of the Keck School of Medicine scholarship for incoming master’s students. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at USC. What has been your journey over the last few years? Karyn Wong (Image courtesy Karyn Wong) I...
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Meet our scholarship recipients: Isabella Hauptman
Isabella Hauptman is a 2020 recipient of the Keck School of Medicine scholarship for incoming master’s students. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology degree at USC. She was selected as valedictorian of USC's Class of...
Meet our scholarship recipients: Melissa Lorenzo
Melissa Lorenzo is a 2020 recipient of the Keck School of Medicine scholarship for incoming master’s students. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Biostatistics degree at USC. What has been your journey so far? Melissa Lorenzo (Image courtesy Melissa...
Meet our scholarship recipients: Cassidy Hernandez-Tamayo
Cassidy Hernandez-Tamayo is a 2020 recipient of the Keck School of Medicine scholarship for incoming master's students. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at USC. What has been your journey over the last few years? Cassidy Hernandez-Tamayo...
Howard Hu, new chair of Population and Public Health Sciences, brings passion about public health
Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD. (USC Photo/Ricardo Carrasco III) Howard Hu was destined to make his mark at the intersection of health and humanity. He learned to love literature and the arts from his mother, who grew up in Europe and spoke seven languages as the daughter of...
Population and Public Health Sciences students share their work in award-winning videos
Students in Population and Public Health Sciences showcased their work in a series of videos garnering awards in both the Keck School of Medicine Research Video Challenge and the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences contest of the same name....
The disaster artist
Master of Public Health recipient Nicole Mercado Anazagasty has lived through disasters, and the Puerto Rico native plans on helping others through them, too Back in December 2017, when she was applying to graduate school, Nicole Mercado Anazagasty had much more...
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences welcomes students to fall semester
Associate Dean for Health and Population Science Programs Richard Watanabe, PhD The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences welcomed incoming graduate students during orientation on Monday, for what is sure to be a very different type of fall semester. The...
Population and Public Health Sciences professors receive 2020 USC Mentoring Awards
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...
PhD student receives funding to study family planning during COVID-19 pandemic
How does a pandemic impact family planning? Christine Naya, PhD candidate in the Health Behavior Research program at Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been awarded funding from USC Center for the Changing Family at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences...
Teaching COVID-19: USC students see how virus has affected medicine, public health
Medical students at USC can now count public heath as part of their degree training. A new course titled “COVID-19: A 21st Century Pandemic: Will it Lead to Lasting Change?” educated nearly 200 second- and third-year medical students at the intersection of clinical...
Dean Mosqueda again named to LABJ’s ‘LA500’ list
Laura Mosqueda, MD, Dean of the Keck School of Medicine, has been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “LA500” list of the most influential people in Los Angeles. It was Dean Mosqueda’s third time appearing on the list. The list also...