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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After years of contributing to the Journal of Women & Aging as associate editor, editorial board member, guest editor and manuscript reviewer, health promotion, education, and behavior professor and chair Daniela Friedman has been selected to lead the journal as editor.
Research led by health promotion, education, and behavior associate professor Brie Turner-McGrievy has revealed that popular diets are not necessarily the most healthy. Turner-McGrievy and her team compared 40 diets rated by physicians and nutritionists for U.S. News & World Report.
Graduate students from across the Arnold School have earned 2020-2021 SPARC Graduate Research Grants from the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research to fund individual scholarship initiatives.
Jacob Barber (EXSC), Jennifer Mandelbaum (HPEB) and Gabriella Reynolds (COMD) were chosen from a pool of nominations submitted by graduate directors across the university for their classroom excellence, research/scholarship contributions and potential for future success.
Health promotion, education, and behavior professor Xiaoming Li is one of just five faculty from across UofSC to receive a 2021 Breakthrough Leadership in Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Ruth Saunders as been awarded the Psychology Department Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at her undergraduate alma mater, Clemson University, for her 30-plus-year career of exemplary research and practice.
As part of the Arnold School’s Maternal and Child Health Public Health Catalyst Program, these scholarships provide competitive research funding to promising students to pursue research in areas related to the health and well-being of mothers, children, and adolescents.