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2019 Breman Fellows: Miles Lambert-Peck and Agnes Premkumar

Posted on April 24, 2019May 1, 2019

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health named two Keck School of Medicine of USC students as 2019 Breman Global Health Fellows: Miles Lambert-Peck, a dual master's degree student studying social entrepreneurship an... read more →

Sexual Assault on College Campuses Is a Pervasive Problem

Posted on April 1, 2019May 6, 2019

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and legislative action is needed. (more…)... read more →

Establishing Competencies for a Global Health Workforce: Recommendations from the Association of Pacific Rim Universities

Posted on March 26, 2019May 2, 2019

Despite growing interest in global health and proliferation of global health education programs worldwide, there's little agreement on what constitutes appropriate competencies and training in the field. (more…... read more →

Time’s Up on Child Marriages in the U.S.

Time’s Up on Child Marriages in the U.S.

Posted on March 13, 2019May 2, 2019

USC's Mellissa Withers, associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, and Alyssa Kyle, a health promotion and disease prevention studies student, delve into child marriage as a form of human trafficking in this install... read more →

Planetary Health the Next Frontier: Association of Pacific Rim Universities Global Health Program Conference in Malaysia

Posted on December 20, 2018October 1, 2020

Planetary Health the Next Frontier, the 12th Association of Pacific Rim Universities Global Health Program Conference, co-organized by APRU and University of Malaya in October, welcomed 306 participants from more than 70 inst... read more →

Global Health Leadership: Case Studies From the Asia-Pacific

Posted on December 10, 2018May 2, 2019

This timely book serves as an overview of the challenges in global health leadership from multiple perspectives, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and leaders from around the world who ar... read more →

2018 American Association of Public Health Annual Meeting & Expo

Posted on November 14, 2018December 12, 2018

Mistrust, telemedicine, Alzheimer's, human rights and sexual health—USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health faculty are presenting and participating in discussions on a range of global health subjects at this week's�... read more →

Postpartum depression in Mongolia: A qualitative exploration of health care providers’ perspectives

Posted on June 23, 2018May 2, 2019

An estimated 16 percent of pregnant women and 20 percent of postpartum women in low- and middle-income countries experience depression. In a qualitative study published in the journal Midwifery, researchers sought to explain ... read more →

A Vicious Cycle: Domestic Abuse, Homelessness, Trafficking

A Vicious Cycle: Domestic Abuse, Homelessness, Trafficking

Posted on May 31, 2018May 2, 2019

On any given night, more than half a million Americans are homeless. Thanks to the determined efforts of federal, state, and local U.S. government agencies, as well as many non-profit organizations, homelessness across the na... read more →

New course takes students to Costa Rica to learn about planetary health, equity

Posted on February 16, 2018March 21, 2018

Instructors are leading a new course in Costa Rica this summer—May 19 to June 1. Students will visit different locations and organizations to learn about planetary health and health equity. All USC graduate students are eli... read more →

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