USC Department of Population and Public Health Sciences

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EVENT: SCEHSC Seminar with Robert O Wright M.D., MPH Join us for December’s SCEHSC Seminar, where Robert O. Wright, MD, PhD, will present his research on exposomics and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD).? Wright is the Ethel H Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has a transdisciplinary background in pediatrics, toxicology, genetics and environmental epidemiology. Wright directs the NIH funded Mount Sinai Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Targeted Lab Hub and Mount Sinai’s NIEHS P30 Core Center. His research seeks to link exposomics and phenomics with life stage and the developmental origins of health and disease.? Register here: https://lnkd.in/g4FSw_JA

EVENT: 'Electoral Aftershock? What's next for health and social equity?' Our panelists will discuss implications for researchers, teachers, and students working in the fields of health and social equity. ???December 4 | 12 PM (PT) ? Learn more + register here: https://bit.ly/40PbvQZ Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health USC Equity Research Institute

In June, the University of S?o Paulo (USP) launched its inaugural Youth Ambassador cohort, marking a significant expansion of the Durex x USC IIGH Global Initiative on Young People’s Sexual Rights and Health. Our partnership with USP strengthens our global network of young advocates advancing sexual health and rights across borders. Keep reading to learn more about what they have been up to, and make sure to follow the USP Youth Ambassadors on Instagram and TikTok @DireitosSexuaisUSP. In less than five months, USP Youth Ambassadors have: ??Collaborated with the condom brand Olla to learn the foundations in how to create engaging and impactful digital content. ??Partnered with Fellows from the IIGH Sexual Rights for Social Change Academy to learn about advocacy campaigns and the intersections of climate and sexual and reproductive health and rights. ???Engaged audiences by creating compelling social media content on sexual rights and health. ??Built lasting partnerships with other USP student organizations to advance on the ground prevention initiatives. USP Youth Ambassadors are also taking action beyond the digital space! They made a splash at the Peruada Festival and are now preparing for something bigger - the Fazendo arte com preven??o festival. This USP-hosted celebration will bring together hundreds of young people from across S?o Paulo, uniting the arts and creative interventions with sexual health and rights.

Connecting with our community. ?? Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, shares ways in which USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Keck School partner with the food drive at Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA to provide resources and cancer screening information to our neighbors.

?Our faculty member Goleen Samari, PhD, contributed to a new report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine which looks to advance the state of knowledge on the impact of women’s empowerment and associated population dynamics on socioeconomic development. ??Women’s empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic development have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. However, attempts to reconcile these perspectives and apply a holistic view to the relationships among these concepts have been rare, and this lack of consensus limits the extent to which these concepts can be applied toward accomplishing global health and development goals. ??The new report looks to develop a conceptual framework describing these dynamics and setting an agenda for future policy-relevant research and data collection. ? Access the report:?https://bit.ly/3Z5yGFh Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California University of Southern California USC Research and Innovation Ricky Bluthenthal #WomensEmpowerment #Women #Demography #Socioeconomic #DataCollection #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment

EVENT: 'Electoral Aftershock? What's next for health and social equity?' Our panelists will discuss implications for researchers, teachers, and students working in the fields of health and social equity. ???December 4 | 12 PM (PT) ? Learn more + register here: https://bit.ly/40PbvQZ Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health USC Equity Research Institute

NEW RESEARCH: Study finds health disparities in PFAS levels linked to drinking water, food access and industrial pollution In a study led by postdoctoral scholar Sherlock Li, PhD, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California found that certain neighborhood factors were associated with higher levels of #PFAS in the blood of Southern California residents, which increases the risk for disease. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gNhMie3b University of Southern California USC Research and Innovation USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences USC Viterbi School of Engineering Ricky Bluthenthal Jesse Goodrich Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez Sandy Eckel Carmen (Jiawen) Chen Sarah rock David Conti John Wilson Frank Gilliland Elizabeth Costello #usc #reasearch #southerncalifornia #california #publichealth #education

USC Master of Public Health students explore civic engagement and voting disparities, equitable access to health care, distribution of aid during natural disasters, and food security in their latest projects. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g86pxX48 Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California University of Southern California Ricky Bluthenthal Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, ScD, MPH, MRPL #student #publichealth #usc #civicengagement #voting #votingdisparities #healthequity #access #healthcare #foodsecurity

EVENT: 'Electoral Aftershock? What's next for health and social equity?' Our panelists will discuss implications for researchers, teachers, and students working in the fields of health and social equity. ???December 4 | 12 PM (PT) ? Learn more + register here: https://bit.ly/40PbvQZ Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health USC Equity Research Institute University of Southern California USC Research and Innovation Ricky Bluthenthal Sofia Gruskin #usc #health #socialequity