Five projects supported by Prisma Health Research Seed Grants will be led by Arnold School researchers in 2025. Marta Bornstein (HPEB), Devin Bowes (ENHS)), Brian Chen (HSPM), Melissa Nolan (Epidemiology), and Elizabeth Regan (EXSC) each received up to $20,000.
Elizabeth Crouch, an associate professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management and co-director for the Rural and Minority Health Research Center, will serve as editor for the Journal of Rural Mental Health.
The CDC has awarded $1 million to the envision program at the Arnold School's Center for Community Health Alignment to strengthen the community health worker (CHW) workforce nationwide and the ability of other entities to partner with CHWs.
Funded by the Health Resources & Services Administration, the program provides tuition and living expenses for students like Merideth Tallon in exchange for their commitment to work in undeserved areas.
Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences ('06) alumna Sarah Glaven currently serves as the Principal Assistant Director for Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
A first-generation college student and first-generation Mexican American, Dayana Sandoval says she chose USC because the university believed in her first. She leaned into the support she felt from Arnold School and the TRIO Opportunity Scholars Program.
USC features the work of environmental health sciences professor and nanoscience expert Mohammed Baalousha, whose research into the aftermath of fires is timely given the wildfires that plague the U.S.
Sten Stray-Gundersen has joined the Department of Exercise Science with research interests in cardiovascular exercise physiology with special emphasis on hypoxia, blood flow restriction training, and endothelial function.
Since joining the department in 2015, Furr has supported CPARG as well as the Technology Center to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (TecHealth) and the Prevention Research Center (PRC).
Eric Mishio Bawa recently received the Laurence G Branch Doctoral Student Research Award from the American Public Health Association for his research into the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Exercise oncology emerged as a scientific field of study in the past decade or two, and M.S. in Exercise Science student Scott Anderson wields it as a powerful tool for enhancing health and one's overall outlook on life.
Amandeep Kaur is committed to curbing the high rates of preventable health conditions in affected populations. Using her education and training from the Arnold School's Ph.D. in Epidemiology program, she's taking a unique approach.