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Remembering the Days podcast features Arnold School

Remembering the Days podcast host Chris Horn discusses five decades of growth and impact as the Arnold School celebrates 50 years: 1975-2025. Featuring Lill Mood, Russ Pate, Tom Chandler, and Tara Sabo-Attwood.

Half of rural SC families bypass local hospitals to deliver their babies in urban settings and experience worse outcomes

Rural and maternal health expert Peiyin Hung has published new research in JAMA Network Open on maternal health outcomes based on the hospital locations where rural South Carolinians give birth.

Leila Larson applies global health expertise to complex condition affecting many South Carolinians during pregnancy

Health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson conducts her nutrition-focused maternal and child health research all over the world, and South Carolinians will soon benefit from her expertise.

Healthy start, healthy change

USC features Jihong Liu's MCH research into the developmental origins of disease – how the mother’s health in pregnancy affects her children’s – as well as how a woman’s experiences during pregnancy can affect her own health for a lifetime.

USC researchers offer insights on how the intersection of modern diets, climate, and food systems is increasing inflammation

USC researchers recently reviewed the existing literature on diet-induced inflammation, climate change, and food systems - finding numerous scientific papers focusing on each of these areas but very few that looked at their overlap.

Women are not small men

USC features exercise science assistant professor Katie Hirsch's efforts to make health research more inclusive by incorporating new methods to include women and remove barriers that have deterred scientists from including them previously.

SC Department of Environmental Services Director Myra Reece shares how her Arnold School degree prepared her for leading statewide efforts to improve public health

The Department of Environmental Health Sciences had only been offering their Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis on hazardous materials for a couple years when Reece applied.

Staff Spotlight: Krystal Cooper

A 2009 alumna of the Master of Health Administration program, Krystal Cooper found her way back to the Arnold School after nearly 10 years with large health care systems.

26-author publication on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias harnesses power of collaboration using Team Science approach

As USC leadership and expertise in advancing brain health and healthy aging grows ever stronger, a recent scholarly paper perfectly exemplifies why South Carolina's flagship university is excelling in these efforts.

Senior public health major named Rhodes Scholarship finalist

South Carolina Honors College student and Stamps scholar Hannah Brennen is a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship finalist. If selected for this award, Brennen will become the University of South Carolina’s 11th Rhodes scholar, the first since Jory Fleming in 2016.

Big data may unveil the impacts of extreme weather events on child health and development in the U.S.

Using a second National Institutes of Health grant awarded this year, health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson will examine the factors influencing childhood development from yet another angle: weather.

I Am Public Health: Richard Strater

Richard Strater has been an Arnold School staff member since 2020, but that's not the only reason why the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree he's currently pursuing feels like coming full circle.

 

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