Maya Smith and Lexie McIntosh both work in areas connecting adults with health and well-being resources, they both give back to their alma mater through mentorship, and they both have the same advice for current/future students.
USC features the rural health research and practice from faculty, staff and students across the university, with the Rural and Minority Health Research Center as one of the key leaders for these initiatives.
The Coalition for Excellence in MCH Epidemiology recognized Jihong Liu with the 2024 National Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.
A student in the Ph.D. in HPEB program, Gitanjali Lall uses principles of developmental psychology to improve community health and fundamentals of public health intervention research to improve early childhood development.
Health promotion, education, and behavior professor Jim Thrasher will investigate how social influences - particularly those through social media - impact teens' decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.
A recent study showed that free summer programming successfully reduced children's Body Mass Index (BMI), whereas participants in the control group experienced increases in their BMIs during the summer months.
Funded by an $11 million grant, USC’s new Center for Clinical and Translational Research allows health science researchers to take a new approach to addressing chronic health conditions and reduce patient hardships across the state.
The National Athletic Trainers' Association and Board of Certification, Inc. recently honored the South Carolina Athletic Trainers' Association with awards for achieving legislation to require licensure for the profession.
Earlier this year, Gianna Mastrofini was selected by the National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation to receive the organization's Women's Scholarship. More recently, they awarded her a $15,000 Graduate Research Grant.
This fall, Lauren Fowler joined FIRST FIIRRE as an assistant professor of health promotion, education, and behavior. She uses transdisciplinary, mixed methods to look at how multi-level health determinants contribute to mental health inequities.
As the program coordinator for Maternal and Child Health training, Mosher helps implement the two major workforce development grants awarded Liu to bolster MCH training and curriculum opportunities at USC.
Danielle Krobath's goal is to prevent and eliminate nutrition-related chronic disease disparities among children and families, and the epidemiology assistant professor has adopted a very broad lens to guide her approach.