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...
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati. (USC Photo/Chris Shinn) Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, Associate Dean for Community Initiatives, was the recipient of the 2020 American Association for Cancer Research Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Richard M. Watanabe, PhD, has been appointed Associate Dean for Health and Population Science Programs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Dean Laura Mosqueda, MD, announced Tuesday. Watanabe is a professor of preventive medicine and physiology and neuroscience,...