The Teaching Excellence and Pedagogical Innovation Awards Committee presented its first faculty awards in recognition of excellence in teaching. The inaugural cohort received their certificates on August 19, 2023, from Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of...
Faculty Posts
New Faculty: Dayoung Bae, PhD
Dayoung Bae, PhD, assistant professor of clinical, joins the Division of Health Behavior Research in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. Bae's primary research focus is on the association between stressful life events and health risk behaviors...
New Faculty: Jesse Goodrich, PhD
Jesse Goodrich, PhD, assistant professor of population and public health sciences, joins the Division of Environmental Health in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. Goodrich is an environmental data scientist with a background in environmental...
New Faculty: Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, ScD, MPH, MRPL
Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, ScD MPH, MRPL, associate professor of population and public health sciences, joins the Division of Environmental Health in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. Irfan's research questions things that are normalized within...
Why are the law and human rights important to population and public health?
According to Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, professor of population and public health sciences, the pandemic raised awareness of inequalities around human rights and social justice issues—especially their intersection with public health. The director of the USC Institute on...
Two Faculty Members Receive 2023 Mentor Awards from USC
Jennifer Tsui, PhD, MPH, associate professor of population and public health sciences, and Albert Farias, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of population and public health sciences, received 2023 USC Mentor Awards at a reception hosted by the USC Center for Excellence in...
Lourdes Baezconde Garbanati and others named USC University Professors and Distinguished Professors
Two Keck School of Medicine Faculty Named 2022 AAAS Fellows
Keck School researchers among world’s most influential resources
USC Assistant Professor selected for prestigious JPB Environmental Health Fellowship
Assistant Professor of environmental health, Max Aung, PhD, MPH, has been selected as a 2022 JPB Environmental Health fellow. This competitive fellowship program supports junior faculty members in the U.S. who demonstrate expertise, commitment, and enthusiasm toward...
USC faculty member wins Award of Excellence for emergency preparedness
Associate Professor Rita Burke, PhD, MPH, has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Award of Excellence from the Business and Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP). The organization is a non-profit association in emergency management...
Faculty members honored with USC Mentoring Awards
Faculty members from the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences received 2022 USC Mentoring Awards at a reception hosted by the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. Pictured: Heather Wipfli, PhD and students at the World Health Assembly. Photo courtesy...