From study abroad programs to multi-national research projects, Arnold School faculty, staff, and students are engaged in global health initiatives throughout the world. We address public health issues on a global scale and contribute to USC's growing international presence.
Jared "JD" Dawson will complete an MPH at the University of Cape Town, studying disease prevention and treatment. Emily Saathoff will complete an MPH with a focus on child and maternal health at the University of Ghana.
She is using her expertise in child development and malnutrition in studies in Malawi and Bangladesh to examine the effects of nutritional supplementation in early life on cognitive functioning and health of children and their mothers.
Audrey Gleaton chose UofSC’s Family Medicine-Global Health Fellowship Program, which includes an MPH in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, due to its balance of academic and clinical/field experience as well as its international connections and highly recommended staff.
Anna Book, a May graduate of the Bachelor of Science in Public Health program, will soon begin a Master of Public Health program at Columbia University where she’ll study health policy and global health.
In October 2019, Kanyangarara joined the Arnold School of Public Health to continue advancing her research in the areas of global health and infectious diseases, particularly those affecting mothers, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries.
Yu-Hsiu Lin, a 2015 graduate of the Arnold School’s Ph.D. in Health Services Policy and Management program, has received the Young Scholar Fellowship from the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology’s Einstein Program.
Not only do CENR members study how to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of nanoparticles’ effects on environmental and human health, they exchange ideas with others from kindergarteners to leading scientists in the field.
Grace Cooney will use the grant to pursue a Master of in Migration, Culture, and Global Health at Queen Mary University of London. The Rotary program aims to increase international understanding and positive relationships among people from different countries and geographic areas.
Originally from Japan, Takeo Ichiyanagi moved to the U.S. after high school. He ended up staying for 15 years, amassing the knowledge and skills that would eventually land him the position of head athletic trainer for Japan’s Men’s National Basketball team.
David Boucher, a 1982 graduate of the Department of Health Services Policy and Management’s Master of Public Health program, has been selected to serve as the Chief Business Transformation Officer for Bumrungrad International Hospital
Michael Beets, a children’s health researcher in the Department of Exercise Science, has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He will use the grant to study the etiology of accelerated weight gain during summer versus the school year.
Jim Thrasher, professor of health promotion, education, and behavior, has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. With this five-year project, he will evaluate whether public health messages on cigarette package inserts, which are small printed leaflets inside of cigarette packs, can help smokers quit.
The December issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an editorial by epidemiology and biostatistics professor Jihong Liu on prioritizing the top health issues in China beyond 2018 from a health equity perspective.
After moving back to Iceland in 2015, he took a position as a specialist and researcher at Iceland’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. His role focuses on employee health-related policies, workplace health promotion and research projects in prevention and health.
Originally funded with a five-year, $5.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom government, this supplemental award from the Gates Foundation brings the total funding for the program up to nearly $6.3 million.
During the five-year, funded appointment as an adjunct professor with Shanxi Agricultural University, Lead will collaborate with other researchers, supervise students and help the university develop a ‘nano' group dedicated to agricultural issues.
With interests in human behavior, education and health promotion interventions, Martínez-Jaikel has more than a decade of experience implementing health life style programs for low-income women in Costa Rica.
Jim Thrasher, professor of health promotion, education, and behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health, has been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Fogarty International Center.
Since 2015, HPEB researchers have been using a $5.5 million grant to manage a competitive grants program that supports research aimed at understanding drivers of food choice in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
This year, the department offered An Overview of Sport Culture: From Ancient World to Present (EXSC 555). Faculty Barbara Cuevas, Morgan Collins, and Sara Corwin led students throughout Italy and Greece, learning about the history of sports.
The MPH in HPEB professional online program’s format supported Alyssa Geis’ commitment to continue to working with Operation Smile, an international charity that provides free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries.
During her doctoral program in health services policy and management, Duaa Aljabri developed expertise in analyzing and implementing national healthcare policies as well as assessing outcomes in both the managerial and clinical practice levels.
After receiving the AUPHA Foster G. McGaw Scholarship Award for graduating at the top of her class with a 4.0 GPA, Manel Boufaied is planning to pursue an international career in healthcare management to apply what she’s learned.
In a few months, Kate Samuel will apply the knowledge and skills she gained at Carolina with a new adventure: a 27-month assignment as a public health educator in Peru with the Peace Corps, likely working with HIV/AIDS, mothers and children, and/or youth development.
Now a junior studying public health with a minor in statistics, Deborah Keen has known she wanted to pursue a career in epidemiology since her junior year in high school. It was around that time that she first traveled to Kenya—a country to which she would later return as a college student.
She chose UofSC for her undergraduate degree due to the welcoming campus, opportunity to walk on the track and field team and its status as home to the only accredited school of public health in the state.
Growing up in a small town in northeast China, Max (Xiaoguang) and Flora (Xiaonan) Ma shared experiences, ideas, and stories—even similar personalities. They also share degrees: master's in public health and soon, Ph.D.s in epidemiology from the Arnold School.
The senior public health major has already founded two nonprofit organizations (one on his own and a second with fellow student J.P. Prohdoel) and built relationships with communities in the Caribbean, Central America and Africa.
Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit humanitarian organization that is committed to partnering with lower-income communities around the world in the areas of water supply, sanitation, energy, agriculture, civil works, structures and information.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Jim Burch used a Fulbright Specialist grant to travel to Chile and build collaborative opportunities with the Austral University of Chile.
Xiaoming Li, HPEB Professor and Director for the SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality (CHQ), and Shan Qiao, Assistant Professor of HPEB and CHQ, have received a $1 million grant NIH's U.S.-China Program for Biomedical Collaborative Research.
A group of leaders from the Arnold School, School of Medicine, and Office of the Provost/Global Carolina Program spent nearly two weeks overseas, fostering relationships with several health sciences universities in Taiwan and mainland China.
The Arnold School supplied two of the founding courses in the new USC in Costa Rica: Global Health Maymester program, including an epidemiology course that conducted a model service learning project.