Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior candidate Freda Allyson ("Ally") Hucek is the 2025 recipient of the Steven P. Wallace Emerging Advocate Award from APHA's Aging and Public Health Section.
Glover retired in 2016, but she continues to see the fruits of her past efforts - watching her former students become full professors, transform into thought leaders, and preparing the next generation to carry the work forward.
Growing up in a rural part of the Lowcountry, Keandra Warren saw first-hand how the absence of specialized speech-language services can lead to community-wide disparities from an early age.
A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Howard compared the health outcomes of planned hospital births vs planned community births (i.e., births that were intended to take place at home or at a birthing center).
Exercise science assistant professor Elizabeth Adams is using her expertise in healthy dietary patterns among children and families to lead a five-year study focused on improving nutrition through SNAP.
Master of Public Health in Epidemiology alumna Emma Boswell is the eighth member of the Rural Health Research Center in the last decade to be invited to join the National Rural Health Association's Rural Health Fellows Program.
Remembering the Days podcast host Chris Horn discusses five decades of growth and impact as the Arnold School celebrates 50 years: 1975-2025. Featuring Lill Mood, Russ Pate, Tom Chandler, and Tara Sabo-Attwood.
Rural and maternal health expert Peiyin Hung has published new research in JAMA Network Open on maternal health outcomes based on the hospital locations where rural South Carolinians give birth.
Health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson conducts her nutrition-focused maternal and child health research all over the world, and South Carolinians will soon benefit from her expertise.
USC features Jihong Liu's MCH research into the developmental origins of disease – how the mother’s health in pregnancy affects her children’s – as well as how a woman’s experiences during pregnancy can affect her own health for a lifetime.
USC researchers recently reviewed the existing literature on diet-induced inflammation, climate change, and food systems - finding numerous scientific papers focusing on each of these areas but very few that looked at their overlap.
USC features exercise science assistant professor Katie Hirsch's efforts to make health research more inclusive by incorporating new methods to include women and remove barriers that have deterred scientists from including them previously.