During her undergraduate tenure, Jill Smiley interned or shadowed at several physical therapy and other health care clinics - gaining insight into a variety settings and specialties. She also joined the Exercise Science Club and volunteered at local nonprofits.
After finding USC's environment to be a welcoming one, Bhola decided to stay at the Arnold School to pursue an M.S. in Epidemiology. She's made lifelong friends, learned valuable life skills, and broadened her community.
Returning to USC for graduate school was an easy decision for Ciara Matthews. As her alma mater, the state's flagship university held a special place for Matthews, but the biggest factor was the program's flexibility.
Victoria Adebiyi graduates with a Ph.D. in HPEB this month after completing her global health dissertation project. She's currently working on manuscripts that describe what she learned during a mixed-methods she conducted study in Nigeria.
The authors found that Black individuals in urban areas were at highest risk of postpartum readmission. Rural residence was also associated with increased readmission risk and eclipsed differences in readmission rates by race/ethnicity.
A third generation Gamecock, Arlis Dawsey grew up wearing garnet and black and knew that USC would feel like a second home. He decided to study public health because of its focus on population-level changes and community service.
Keren Herrán graduates this month, and she's ready to change the world. The global health researcher gained a breadth and depth of international research experience during her Ph.D. program.
Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior candidate Freda Allyson ("Ally") Hucek is the 2025 recipient of the Steven P. Wallace Emerging Advocate Award from APHA's Aging and Public Health Section.
Glover retired in 2016, but she continues to see the fruits of her past efforts - watching her former students become full professors, transform into thought leaders, and preparing the next generation to carry the work forward.
Growing up in a rural part of the Lowcountry, Keandra Warren saw first-hand how the absence of specialized speech-language services can lead to community-wide disparities from an early age.
A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Howard compared the health outcomes of planned hospital births vs planned community births (i.e., births that were intended to take place at home or at a birthing center).
Exercise science assistant professor Elizabeth Adams is using her expertise in healthy dietary patterns among children and families to lead a five-year study focused on improving nutrition through SNAP.