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.
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Ashley Page Bookhart is committed to ensuring that no child goes hungry. With one in six children facing hunger in South Carolina, it's a significant challenge for the Palmetto state - one she's been tackling for more than a decade.
USC features the work of health promotion, education, and behavior associate professor Xueying Yang, who tracks HIV care from youth to adulthood.
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) is proud to announce the 2025 winners of the department's student awards program: Ashley Thurber, Deeksha Gupta, and Mallory Gedeon.
The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced the recipients of the 2025 Advanced Support for Innovative Research Excellence (ASPIRE) and ASPIRE AI awards to fund 27 scholarly projects.
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior alum (MPH, '94; DrPH, '11) Edena Guimaraes has been a faculty member in the department for nearly a decade and a part of the Consortium for Latino Health for even longer.
Roger Sargent may have a background in biology, but he found his passion in public health. His Ph.D. program first introduced him to the field - a focus on human parasitology that brought him to USC's biology department in 1968.