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How health care can go green
USC Africa Hub aims to solve global health problems through collaboration with local partners
Sofia Gruskin named to Lancet’s Gender and Global Health Commission
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and professor of preventive medicine, has been appointed to The Lancet’s Gender and Global Health Commission. Gruskin is among 25 independent...
Present IIGH and UNDP work reflects the long-term impacts of global collaboration
The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health team has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in sub-Saharan Africa on a series of evaluations relating to projects addressing the legal environment around HIV and TB to better support key...
USC IIGH Engages in Partnership Building in Kenya
The leadership of the USC Institute for Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) team has developed relationships and partnerships around the world for more than two decades on a range of critical global health issues. That experience and connectivity to the field is...
New associate dean to address social justice
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...
How the Medicaid expansion has helped the homeless
As part of the USC Center for Health Journalism's "Remaking Health Care" blog series, Michael Cousineau, professor of clinical preventive medicine, explains how Medicaid has assisted Los Angeles County's efforts to house the homeless....
USC students discuss health care policy with legislators
Students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC do more than learn to be physicians: A group of them got a taste of government policymaking after meeting with state legislators in Sacramento on June 6 and 7. To give students firsthand experience in working with...
In defense of needle exchange programs
Ricky Bluthenthal, professor of preventive medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC, is defending needle exchange programs as they face closure in various U.S. cities. The programs offer clean needles in exchange for old ones to lower the risk of HIV and hepatitis C...
Drones that save lives? Meet humanitarian aid’s newest tool
The online study of unmanned aerial vehicles at USC can help global health providers make effective use of emerging technology. Public health experts and people providing humanitarian aid in remote areas are now using drones to deliver medical supplies and...