News Archive
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Co-authored by Dr. Diana Taylor, professor emerita, University of California, San Francisco; Dr. Ellen F. Olshansky, women’s health nurse practitioner, and professor and chair, University of Southern California; Dr. Versie Johnson Mallard, women’s health nurse practitioner and Association of Reproductive Health board member; Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, professor and dean emeritus, University of Washington; Dr. Monica R. McLemore, assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco, and research scientist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health.
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David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces.
Over his decades-long career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce.
He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.”
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Barbara Jury ’50 discovered her calling at an early age. When she was 7 she spent a week in the hospital recovering from an appendectomy, and she believes the experience of observing nursing in action around the clock planted the seed.
During her teen years, her father became a hospital administrator, offering Jury more opportunity to witness not only the nursing profession but the workings of the whole hospital organization from top to bottom. By the time she graduated high school in 1945, she knew that health care would be her career.
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1989. The Exxon Valdez oil tanker strikes a reef in Prince William Sound, releasing 11 million gallons of crude oil into the environment. A storm blows in soon after, spreading the oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline.
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For National Minority Mental Health Month, a USC professor shares her insights on depression among older Latino adults.
María Aranda, an associate professor holding joint appointments with the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, has spent her career studying mental health issues within older, underserved populations.
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For National Purposeful Parenting Month, we’re discussing a topic that poses a universal challenge to parents: how to talk to your teenagers about drug use.
We checked in with Dorian Traube, associate professor and senior associate dean of faculty affairs, for advice on one of the trickiest parenting moments of all: how to talk to your children about drugs.
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During the course of a year, 1.5 million Americans experience homelessness for at least one night. In the Los Angeles area alone, the homeless population has reached 57,000. This is an increase of 23% countywide from last year.
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USC’s Eric Rice remembers heading to the Venice boardwalk to find Jacob Buhl.
Rice was going to ask Buhl, who is 25 and homeless, if he wanted to help him with his research, educating other homeless youth about HIV. It was for a pilot study he was doing on HIV education in Los Angeles. Homeless youth would be trained as educators and get the word out to their friends.
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Housing is often used as a barometer of achievement in U.S. society. The type of home we live in and our neighborhoods are signals of pedigree, of where we fall on the socioeconomic ladder. Nevertheless, housing is in fact one of life’s few necessities. Although many of us might take it for granted, we need stable quality housing to be healthy, productive citizens. Housing and neighborhoods influence our emotional and physical well-being, human capital development, and social networks. At its core, housing is a human right.
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Consumers can now interact with artificially intelligent machines in their homes through Google Home and Amazon Echo, which serve as personal assistants that answer questions, tell jokes and play music, but there is a potential for deeper human-machine connections.
A USC project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation is exploring how robots can provide companionship and support intergenerational interactions between older adults and other family members in the same house.