Big Data Health Science Center brings big minds, big ideas
USC features the Big Data Health Science Center, digging into how data analysis can improve health care outcomes across South Carolina but emphasizing that the workforce must be cultivated.
Devin Bowes uses wastewater-based epidemiology to advance environmental justice, health equity
Bowes adopts an environmental justice and health equity lens. She was inspired to incorporate these perspectives into her work when conducting COVID-19 research as a graduate student.
Tom Chandler returns to faculty role after 17 years as Dean of the Arnold School
A nationwide search is underway for the next dean of the Arnold School, and Chandler is prepared to hand over the reins after 17 years as its leader. His office is packed, and, here, he unpacks his reflections on his tenure as dean.
Communication sciences and disorders welcomes intellectual disability expert Liz Will
Will has expertise in cognitive processes and executive function profiles in children with genetic conditions associated with intellectual disability. Birth to five years is the primary age period of interest to her work.
Athletic training graduate to work with professional, pre-professional athletes
After graduating in May, Professional Athletic Training Student Above and Beyond Award winner Kimberly Nardi will begin working with professional and collegiate athletes at a performance-based sports complex in Georgia.
Does a USC-designed wearable device accurately measure daily activity and sleep for children? A new series of studies will tell
Exercise science assistant professor Bridget Armstrong has been awarded $3.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to test the effectiveness of PATCH, a wearable device designed to measure children's routine activities.
Student body president turned OB-GYN brings public health mindset to patient care
USC features public health alumnus and former USC student body president Ross Lordo, who chose to become an OB-GYN so he could help all patients, no matter their background, at a point when they are most vulnerable.
Staff Spotlight: Kathia Valverde
As a training specialist with the Center for Community Health Alignment, Kathia Valverde provides 80 hours of core competency training for students to achieve community health worker certification with several specialty tracks.
Remedies for diet-related diseases expand when Food is Medicine
USC features the work of Food is Medicine researchers, who are developing a map to better identify areas where people disproportionately experience a lack of access to food.
Stella Self to develop new ways to monitor spread of vector-borne diseases
With $3.7 million from the National Institutes of Health, Self will collaborate with colleagues from multiple institutions on a project that, over time, will save many more millions in the cost of surveillance efforts to track vector-borne diseases.
I Am Public Health: Victoria Adebiyi
Victoria Adebiyi has big goals. The Ph.D. in Health Promotion Education and Behavior candidate plans to improve maternal and child nutrition and health in low- and middle-income countries after her 2025 graduation - continuing the path she began a decade ago in Nigeria.
Jihong Liu to help Prisma extend Healthy Start Program to Upstate
When Prisma Health decided to expand their Midlands Healthy Start program, they turned to maternal and child health expert and epidemiology professor Jihong Liu, who has already led evaluations into the program's effectiveness.