The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Services (RSVP) office is hosting a variety of events in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. These events aim to prevent sexual and gender-based harm in order to create a safer campus for students at USC. Continue reading Upcoming Events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
In her editorial published in The Hill, Mellissa Withers, assistant professor of clinical preventive medicine, describes the reproductive health consequences of replacing the Affordable Care Act, as well as the irony in President Trumps’ re-establishment of the Global Gag Rule. Continue reading Defunding Planned Parenthood is a violation of women’s reproductive rights
USC Institute for Global Health faculty and collaborators represented USC at the eighth annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health in Washington, D.C., April 7‑9. Continue reading USC takes part in 2017 Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Come and meet graduates of the USC PhD programs in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Health Behavior Research.
Continue reading 04/20/17 – USC Preventive Medicine Career Panel
In this USC Immigrant Health Initiative seminar, Cynthia Willard, medical director for the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles, discussed health issues asylum seekers face. Continue reading 04/25/17 – Health Issues in Asylum Seekers
An interdisciplinary team of students representing four USC schools won the International Emory University Global Health Case Competition Mar. 25, joining the elite few to have clinched first place in the event’s seven years. Continue reading USC wins big at international global health case competition
Register for this one-day conference highlighting emerging and established women leaders in global health.
April 3, 2017
Mexican immigrants have lower smoking rates than U.S.-born Mexicans, and some scholars attribute this to health selection, the concept that individuals who migrate are healthier and have better health behaviors than their non-migrant counterparts. Continue reading 04/03/17 – Smoking Selectivity among Mexican Immigrants using Binational Data
Part of an international collaboration between the USC Institute for Global Health, Operation Smile and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the annual Operation Smile Research Fellowship offers scholars the opportunity to assist in researching the genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of oral clefts in children.
Please join us in welcoming our third cohort of Operation Smile Research Fellows: Master of Public Health candidates Chantel Aftab and Ashkan Nasr, and health and human sciences undergraduate Mahmoud Hamza. Learn more about their interests and work in this Q&A.
Continue reading Meet the 2017 Operation Smile Research Fellows
An editorial co-authored by Laura Ferguson, associate director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights, reflects on the impact that President Donald Trump’s restoration of the Global Gag Rule will have on women across the world, as well as those working to protect reproductive rights. Continue reading Not without a fight: standing up against the Global Gag Rule
