Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) is an interdisciplinary department that applies the social and behavioral sciences to improve public health.
HPEB conducts innovative research and prepares future leaders to improve public health locally, nationally, and globally. Our faculty and students address how interventions, social context, health care systems, and physical environments influence health behaviors and health status, with an emphasis on disadvantaged populations.
Departmental strengths include:
In addition to an undergraduate minor, we offer four advanced degrees related to health promotion, education and behavior as well as three graduate certificate programs. Each graduate degree and certificate has specific application deadlines and requirements.
Are you an undergraduate student interested in doing research with an HPEB faculty member? Fill out this contact form for more information.
Members of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network have produced a supplement in the journal, Preventive Medicine. The SC Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, which is led by Daniela Friedman (PI) and James Hébert (Co-PI), contributed to six of the papers included in the supplement.
Research led by Katrina Walsemann has found that fathers with greater amounts of child-related educational debt report more depressive symptoms and worse mental health than fathers with lower amounts of child-related educational debt.
The Certificate of Graduate Study in Aging, an 18 credit-hour program of graduate-level courses, recently found a new name and a new home in the Arnold School's Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior.
Suzanne (Young) Hunt, a 2014 graduate of the Master of Public Health in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior program, has been named the 2019 Emerging Wellness Professional by the National Wellness Institute.
Though HPEB assistant professor Donaldson Conserve’s Arnold School students have been contributing to his STEP Project from UofSC’s campus, he wanted to provide an opportunity for them to engage in the project in Tanzania.
Four years in, the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality continues to raise the bar on its various training efforts for students, particularly its postdoctoral fellows program. Since 2015, eight postdoctoral fellows have become faculty members at academic institutions in South Carolina and beyond.