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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Researchers recommend adding one more item to your list of New Year's resolutions: getting enough sleep. A recent study found that sleepiness increases reliance on habits - whether good or bad.
Deeksha Gupta has a special tool for advancing health equity: a background in economics. She looks at how addressing social determinants of health within clinical settings can improve patient outcomes.
Health promotion, education, and behavior professor Jim Thrasher will investigate how social influences - particularly those through social media - impact teens' decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.
This fall, Lauren Fowler joined FIRST FIIRRE as an assistant professor of health promotion, education, and behavior. She uses transdisciplinary, mixed methods to look at how multi-level health determinants contribute to mental health inequities.
The National Institutes of Health has selected one of the university's foremost aging and health communication researchers, Daniela Friedman, as the recipient of a National Institute on Aging K07 Academic Leadership Career Award.
The interdisciplinary nature of nutrition research lends itself to collaboration across numerous fields. At USC, scientists come together from public health, nursing, psychology, social work, retail, economics, student health, medicine, computer science, engineering, and earth and ocean sciences.