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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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For the past year, Tramaine McMullen has worked at SC DHEC as a program evaluator. More recently, she took on the role of opioids grants manager for the Midlands Public Health Region.
The Journal of Women and Aging, a journal on which HPEB professor Daniela Friedman serves as an associate editor, has published a special issue: Communication and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities for Older Women.
Emily Loud has refined her focus to tobacco control and smoking cessation -- working alongside Jim Thrasher on several of his federally funded projects related to health warning labels on cigarette packs and reduced nicotine cigarette messaging.
The South Carolina State SNAP-Ed Program has published its first-ever annual impact report, sharing the ways that the federal (USDA funding/oversight) nutrition assistance program provides support to communities throughout the state.
Assistant professor Donaldson Conserve has begun investigating the possibility of implementing his National Institutes of Health-funded Self-Testing Education and Promotion (STEP) Project in the Caribbean.
Xiaoming Li and Shan Qiao, faculty members of the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior and the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality have been awarded a competitive supplement grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Led by Xiaoming Li and Bankole Olatosi, this two-year grant will allow the team to develop a database system for collating surveillance, clinical, multi-omics and geospatial data on SC COVID-19 patients and health workers treating them.