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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One year into his program, Sails-Dunbar has already been accepted into USC's Grace Jordan McFadden Professors Program and serves as a teaching assistant for a course focused on community health problems.
Emily Mann has been awarded more than $140K from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences to study the biomedicalization of advanced maternal age.
Ally Hucek (Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior) and Katherine Brown (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) have been selected to join the 2023-2024 Cohort of the This Is Public Health Ambassadors program for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.
Research led by HPEB assistant professor Minji Kim has found that marketing strategies used by e-cigarette manufacturers increase the likelihood of uptake among otherwise low-risk young adults.
Alexander McLain and Edward Frongillo were acknowledged for their role in developing the analytic methods used for estimating overweight and stunting trends among children around the world.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded about $1.6 million to Arnold School faculty to launch a training program aimed at preparing underrepresented minority students to pursue careers in health data science.