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...
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Department of Population and Public Health Sciences ranks #2 in NIH funding seven years running
The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences ranks as one of the top research units of its kind in the country.
Top score for USC and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles’ joint clinical and translational research program
USC and CHLA win $24.5 million NIH grant to establish center aimed at improving Latino health across Southern California
USC environmental health sciences research center awarded $8 million NIH grant
By Cristine Hall USC’s hub for environmental health sciences research has secured a key grant to continue its work in Los Angeles and beyond well into 2025. The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center received a five-year, $8 million grant from the...
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati receives CRSSLA COVID Leadership Award
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH, professor of preventive medicine and Associate Dean for Community Initiatives, has received the CRSSLA (Community Response System of South Los Angeles) COVID Leadership Award. Baezconde-Garbanati says the award was bestowed by...
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati earns AACR Distinguished Lectureship
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...
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...
Sabrina Smiley earns NCI diversity award to continue research on tobacco marketing
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...
Graduate students win Best Visualization Award at Hackathon event
A team of graduate students from the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC received the Best Visualization Award at a November 2019 Data Science Hackathon hosted by the Orange County R Users Group and UCI Paul Merage...
Environmental health scientist honored for air pollution research
Ed Avol, Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was recognized at the 27th Annual International Society of Exposure Science Meeting in October for his career as an exposure scientist...
USC tobacco researchers honored by city officials
City officials pose with USC tobacco control researchers honored Aug. 18 at Los Angeles City Hall. From left: Nora Manzanilla, Tobacco Enforcement Operations director for the Los Angeles City Attorney; Mitch O’Farrell, city councilmember representing the 13th...