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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Fahmida Akter graduates in May with a Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior and her priorities clear: a lifelong connection to USC and an unwavering commitment to improving health, particularly for women and children, in low-resource settings.
Kersten Cope, Alicia Flach, Myriam Torres and Yanan Zhang were recognized by the Student Disability Resource Center with 2025 Two Thumbs Up Awards for going above and beyond to support students with disabilities.
Ph.D. in HPEB alumna Venice Haynes is the senior director for United States of Care, where she leads all research and community engagement efforts for the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization.
Sara Corwin earned two degrees from the Arnold School during its formative years and has spent more than two decades building its undergraduate programs. Read on for an inside view with this very special Pioneering Perspectives story.
Already known as a top-ranked school of public health nationally, the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health has once again been ranked the best school of public health in South Carolina.
Graduate students from across the Arnold School have earned 2024-2025 SPARC Graduate Research Grants from the USC Office of the Vice President for Research to fund individual scholarship initiatives.