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USC Keck and SSI Launch new GeoHealth Track in Online …

WebThe University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine is proud to announce the launch of its GeoHealth track as part of the Master of Public Health online program. This specialty, the first of its kind, will begin accepting applications for the Fall 2014 term. “We are particularly excited to be the pioneers in offering this Continue Reading

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Population, Health and Place Ph.D. Program Info Session

WebLearn about the interdisciplinary Population, Health and Place Ph.D. program jointly offered by the Keck School of Medicine of USC Department of Population and Public Health Sciences (formerly the Department of Preventive Medicine), the USC Dornsife Department of Sociology, and the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute. Hear about the career …

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Michelle Livings

WebAs a Population, Health and Place student at USC, Michelle is combining her broad interests in public health, biostatistics, spatial science and demography. She is developing ways to include more advanced statistical methods to her wheelhouse, adding to her background in regression methods and multilevel modeling. Her research interests …

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Dr. Jeremy Mennis launches Population, Health and Place …

Webfigure.featured-thumbnail.thumbnail.large { display: none; } On Thursday, October 5, 2017, Dr. Jeremy Mennis, Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, delivered the inaugural address in the Ph.D. Program in Population, Health and Place Colloquium Series. Dr. Mennis spoke on "GIS, the Environment, and Health Behaviors: …

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Exploring the Meaning of Place USC Dornsife SSI

WebThe Meaning of Place at USC Dornsife explores the physical, biological and cultural character of specific places and spaces, how human activities are organized, and how our behavior and cultural development affect local understanding and use of the environment. By documenting the origins, character, and meaning of place and spaces, we also …

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Geographic Thinking and GIS for Global Health

WebAvery Everhart, a PhD candidate in Population, Health and Place, presents a discussion and workshop on geographic thinking and geographic information science (GIS) with an emphasis on its use in global health for the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health Student Advisory Council. In this "Lunch and Learn" event, Everhart will share how in …

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Health Benefits of Superblocks

WebSSI Founding Director and Professor John P. Wilson, Ph.D., and Kenan Li, Ph.D., a former SSI research scientist, have published a paper on "Modeling the Health Benefits of Superblocks across the City of Los Angeles" in Applied Sciences.The article was published on February 6, 2023. The term "Superblocks" entered the urban planning …

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Ricky N. Bluthenthal

WebRicky N. Bluthenthal, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Social Justice and a Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and the Institute for Prevention Research at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He received a BA in History and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and

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William M. Berelson

[email protected] / (213) 740-5828 / ZHS 227 Curriculum Vitae William M. Berelson’s research involves studies of biogenic material fluxes to the sea floor and across this boundary. Capturing fluxes through the water column involves the use of sediment traps and measurements of water column profiles (solutes and suspended particles) and modeling; …

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Johanna Avelar Portillo

WebLourdes Johanna Avelar Portillo, MA, PhD, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Division of Global Health as an NIH-funded 2021 GloCal Fogarty Fellow. Dr. Avelar holds a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of …

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Kayla de la Haye

[email protected] / (323) 442-8228 / VPD 405E Kayla de la Haye is a Research Scientist with the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles. She also serves as Co-Director, Research Development Core, of the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI) at USC. She …

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Improving Health in Skid Row with GIS in “Community Health Scan”

WebRead Mia's Youthmappers blog post (April 16, 2018) about her experiences using the power of GIS to improve the health of a local community in the course SSCI 340: Community Health Scan. In this course, Mia and her classmates studied Skid Row, an area in South Los Angeles that is synonymous for homelessness, poverty, and poor health outcomes.

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Introducing our Fall 2022 PHP PhD cohort

WebThe Spatial Sciences Institute is pleased to announce the incoming 2022 cohort to the Population, Health and Place Ph.D. program. Please join us in welcoming these five outstanding students to the Trojan Family! Jacob Gizamba BS Wildlife Health, Makerere University, Uganda (2019) MPH Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Cape …

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Spatial Intersects Big Data in the Big Apple!

WebI recently came across an interesting article by Alan Feuer about spatially-explicit big data and the various ways they are being analyzed, visualized and deployed in New York City to improve everyday lives.

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Population, Health and Place Ph.D. Program Admissions Info Session

WebSeptember 28, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm USC PhD in Population, Health and Place Admissions Info Session Friday, September 28, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Spatial Sciences Institute Conference Room, Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) B57J or listen to the livestream via this Bluejeans link:

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Loraine A. Escobedo, MPH, PhD

WebPage 3 of 5 . Paper 3: Escobedo LA, Franklin M, Wilson JP, Deapen D, Cockburn M. Evaluating the Potential Yield of Geographically-Targeted Melanoma Screening Efforts in Los Angeles County. Status: in preparation. Objective: To identify populations in Los Angeles County that would most likely benefit from targeted screening and to measure …

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