Department of Preventive Medicine

You might find a hangover cure, protection against Alzheimer’s and much more in nature’s bounty.

Darby Saxbe, founder of the Center for the Changing Family at USC Dornsife, shares why the era of COVID-19 is the perfect time to focus on families, stress and health.

Factors like less access to nutritional foods and more exposure to pollution may impact the brain’s structure and volume, a new USC study finds, altering how children read and think.

By Sarah Nightingale The good news: 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been injected into the arms of Americans by Friday, March 19. The bad news: Black and Hispanic Americans are receiving smaller shares of the vaccine compared to their shares of the population. “We’ve heard a lot about

By Cristine Hall Calling all USC students, staff and faculty: USC needs you for a new COVID-19 study. The project, called the Trojan Pandemic Response Initiative (TPRI), will survey 8,000 students, staff and faculty and follow some of them over the course of a year to better understand attitudes and

Welcome to Preventive Medicine! To celebrate passing the first month mark of fall semester, we want to offer our students a chance to have fun and win some prizes! We bring to you a Department of Preventive Medicine Grad Student scavenger hunt. Grab your phone or tablet and try to