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Elaine Huang, who graduates with a bachelor’s in human biology and master’s in global medicine through a progressive degree program, led the student orchestra through the COVID-19 pandemic as it produced a unique set of virtual concerts.
By Cristine Hall When Nathan Dhablania traveled to Panama with Floating Doctors in the spring of his junior year, he noticed that many health disparities abroad existed right here in Los Angeles. Determined to make a difference after his return, Dhablania teamed up with his good friend and classmate, Sammy
By Leigh Hopper USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health are launching a study that will follow up to 3,000 county residents over time to better understand social inequities exposed by COVID-19 as well as other impacts of the pandemic. The project, called the Los Angeles Pandemic Surveillance
By Leigh Hopper The end of the pandemic glimmers on the horizon. Deaths and new COVID cases are in steep decline. Many people have been working at home for months instead of driving long commutes. So why do they feel so tired? USC experts point to one full year of
By Landon Hall A USC researcher and her team are focusing on the lived experiences of Black menthol cigarette smokers by asking them what they think about recently imposed restrictions on retail sales of flavored tobacco products in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Here’s the twist: They’re also asking
By Gustavo Solis Keck Medicine of USC nurses and USC School of Pharmacy students vaccinated more than 400 people from the Eastside of Los Angeles on Saturday to help counter disparities in COVID-19 inoculation. Even though 43% of white and 39% of Asian American seniors have received at least one dose of the
By Cristine Hall At the height of the materialistic ‘80s, when most of his classmates in medical school were shooting for brass ring specialties like orthopedics and opthamology, Jeffrey Klausner, was ready to call it quits. A year at a new AIDS research center in Zaire changed his mind. Studying
The 14th annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Conference was held Oct. 19-21, bringing together health leaders, researchers, policymakers and students. Organized by USC, Fudan University in Shanghai, and the APRU Secretariat, more than 2,700 participants from around the world attended event. Margaret Chan, former Director-General of the World Health
The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, in collaboration with the USC Presidential Working Group on Sustainability, is hosting a lecture Sept. 21 titled “Addressing the Dual Challenges of Climate Change and COVID-19.” The featured speaker is David Nabarro, a World Health Organization Special Envoy on COVID-19 and co-director of the Institute of
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and professor of preventive medicine, has been appointed to The Lancet’s Gender and Global Health Commission. Gruskin is among 25 independent commissioners, in addition to its three co-chairs, and one of the few hailing from the United States. The
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