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...
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...
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 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...
Megan Herting, PhD, discusses how where children grow up can impact their brain development in an episode of the podcast, "Environmental Health Chat," hosted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.Herting, an assistant professor in the department...
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD, will join the Keck School of Medicine of USC as a professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and will serve as associate director for cancer equity, a newly created position, at USC...
By Cristine Hall Proving a link between toxic airborne substances in war zones and resulting respiratory illness has been a challenge for many veterans who were deployed in Southwest Asia during post 9/11 wars. Deployment to this region exposed servicemembers with a...
By Cristine HallAt the height of the materialistic ‘80s, when most of his classmates in medical school were shooting for brass ring specialties like orthopedics and ophthalmology, Jeffrey Klausner, was ready to call it quits.A year at a new AIDS research center in...
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...