Three Department of Population and Public Health Sciences faculty members were recently named to the annual Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters) list of highly cited researchers, recognizing them as among the leading researchers in the world. To make the list,...
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, a professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and member of the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, has been appointed to the Associate Dean for Social Justice, a newly created role effective...
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed internationally recognized cancer researcher and advocate Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, as the first associate director of community outreach and engagement. Baezconde-Garbanati will leverage the...
California Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Mariana Stern, PhD, USC professor of research preventive medicine and urology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, as one of California’s expert scientists on the Carcinogen Identification Committee. She took...
Adam Leventhal, PhD, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, received the American Cancer Society’s Giants of Science Determination Award Oct. 18 in Beverly Hills for his novel research of the causes, consequences, treatment and...
A USC professor is changing the game in determining relationships between environmental factors and health outcomes.
A global health professor is determining the best ways to evaluate the impact of global health initiatives. This post is part of our National Public Health Week series! We're putting the spotlight a different area of public health each day. We hope you are as...
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, received the “Making a Different World” award at the 6th Biennial National Latino Cancer Summit in San Francisco on July 31. The award honors...
A USC public health professor is making it her mission to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates in Los Angeles. This post is part of our National Public Health Week series! We're putting the spotlight a different area of public health each day....
The American Statistical Association named Kiros Berhane, PhD, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, among its 62 fellows in 2017, recognizing his biostatistics research, teaching and service to the scientific community at USC and in...
Photos courtesy of USC CET The USC Mentoring Awards honored Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, professor of preventive medicine, April 6 for her mentorship of graduate students. The annual awards applaud faculty members who help to build a supportive academic...
The Institute of Public Health in Mexico (INSP) celebrated the career of Dr. Jonathan Samet, Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and director of the USC Institute for Global Health, as part of its 30-year anniversary...