Arnold School of Public Health

Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior (HPEB) is an interdisciplinary department that applies the social and behavioral sciences to improve public health.

HPEB conducts innovative research and prepares future leaders to improve public health locally, nationally, and globally. Our faculty and students address how interventions, social context, health care systems, and physical environments influence health behaviors and health status, with an emphasis on disadvantaged populations.

Departmental strengths include:

• community-engaged interventions

• economics of behavior

• global health

• health communication and use of digital technology

• healthy aging

• HIV/AIDS

• nutrition and food security

• physical activity

• prevention of cancer and other non-communicable diseases

• public policy and advocacy

• research methods, program evaluation, and implementation science

• sexual and reproductive health

• social determinants of health and health inequities

• tobacco use and vaping

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