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MPH Program Leadership
 | Amie Hwang, PhD, MPH Director, Master of Public Health Program Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences |
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A Welcome Message from Dr. Hwang
Welcome to the USC public health community. Whether you’re just starting your journey or returning to continue your studies, this is a community to learn and grow together.
Public health is one of the most powerful ways to create real, lasting change locally and globally. It’s about improving lives—sometimes in big, visible ways, and often in quieter, behind-the-scenes work that helps entire communities thrive. The challenges are real, but so is the impact.
USC’s MPH Program equips students not just with facts and figures, but with a way of seeing the world—critically, compassionately and with a systems-level understanding of how health is shaped by biology, behavior, environment and society. This program is more than just coursework. It’s a space to grow, to ask hard questions, and to connect with others who care deeply about making a difference. You’ll learn from faculty who are not only experts in their fields, but who care deeply about your development. You’ll be encouraged to think critically, act ethically and lead with empathy. You’ll be part of a vibrant, diverse student community where peer-to-peer learning is as valuable as classroom instruction.
Take advantage of every opportunity—inside the classroom and out. Collaborate, volunteer, explore research and lean on each other. The field of public health thrives on collaboration, and the connections you build here will carry you far.
Welcome—we are excited to support you on this journey and look forward to the impact you will make.
Warm regards,
Amie E. Hwang
Meet Dr. Hwang
Dr. Hwang has been serving as the Director of the Master of Public Health program at the University of Southern California since January 1, 2022. Dr. Hwang has a passion for teaching and public health and is devoted to the department’s education programs. Prior to becoming the director, she served as a director and faculty advisor for the MPH Biostatistics-Epidemiology concentration.
She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition Science at the University of California, Davis and spent five postgraduate years at the Western Human Nutrition Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Then, she earned her MPH and PhD from USC, and she completed her postdoctoral training in cancer epidemiology at the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC.
As an alumnus of the USC MPH program, Dr. Hwang attributes her passion for public health and her academic pursuit in epidemiology to the valuable training at the USC MPH program. Dr. Hwang is a cancer epidemiologist with a research focus on utilizing innovative, population-based strategies to address the burden of cancer among young people. She is a rising leader actively involved in multiple national initiatives on pediatric cancer research.
Meet Dr. Choudhury
 | Farzana Choudhury, PhD, MBBS Associate Director, Master of Public Health Program Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences |
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Dr. Farzana Choudhury has been serving as the Associate Director of the Master of Public Health program since August 2023. Before that she was the concentration director of the Biostatistics & Epidemiology track.
Dr. Choudhury is a physical-epidemiologist and a USC alumna. Born and raised in Bangladesh, she obtained her medical degree there. She veered towards public health as she realized the importance and relevance of preventive medicine while serving in remote, resource-constrained areas. She obtained her MPH in Bangladesh. After relocating to the USA, she earned an MS (Applied Biostatistics & Epidemiology) and a PhD (Epidemiology) at USC. She joined the USC Eye Institute as a faculty in 2015 and Department of Population and Public Health Sciences in 2018.
Although Dr. Choudhury is active in research and administration, she believes that at her core she has always been, and always will be, a teacher passionate about helping her students connect the dots, so the information they receive becomes the knowledge they can retain and prudently apply. Dr. Choudhury teaches multiple core courses in Biostatistics within the department. Her primary research interests include ocular epidemiology with a specific interest in the epidemiology of retinal disorder.
MPH Online Faculty
Tracy Bastain
Visiting Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Britni Belcher
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Ahmad Besaratini
Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences
Rita Burke
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics, and Spatial Sciences
Taylor Burkholder
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine & Director of Academic Programs, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health
Farzana Choudhury
Associate Director, Master of Public Health Program & Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Jonathan Cohen
Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Victoria Cortessis
Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Aninda Das
Clinical Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Mariam Davtyan
Assistant Professor of Research Pediatrics
Anne Fehrenbacher
Assistant Professor Of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Laura Ferguson
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences
Susanne Hempel
Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Jakub Hlávka
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences & Nonresident Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute
Amie Hwang
Director, Master of Public Health Program & Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Sue Ingles
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Ans Irfan
Clinical Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences (Clinician Educator) & Director of Digital Learning and Innovation
Roksana Karim
Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Sue Kim
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Matthew Kirkpatrick
Associate Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences and Psychology
Kelika Konda
Clinical Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences (Part-time)
Shubha Kumar
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences & Associate Vice Provost for Online Learning
Eunjung Lee
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Chun Li
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Ming Li
Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences
Paul Marjoram
Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences
Tyler Mason
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Goleen Samari
Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Daniel Soto
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Intira Sriprasert
Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology & Director of Research and Scholarship
Jane Steinberg
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Stella Tommasi
Associate Professor of Research Population and Public Health Sciences
Melissa Wilson
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Mellissa Withers
Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences & Director of Pedagogical Enrichment and Training
Thomas Valente
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Lu Zhang
Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Part-Time Lecturers
Lucia Florindez
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Research and Health Equity Project Manager at Cedars-Sinai
Martin Gallegos
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Randa Hamden
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Andrew Lee
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Psychological Associate, Institute of Health
Felice Lin
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Epidemiologist, Vaccine Preventable Disease Control Program – Data and Analytics Unit, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Sandy Lopez
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Instructional Associate Professor of Mathematics, Chapman University
Joshua Russell-Fritch
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Fatimata Sanogo
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Almaas Shaikh
Part Time Lecturer for the Department of Population Health and Public Health Sciences
Deputy health Officer, OC Health Care Agency
Trauma and Critical Care Surgeon, California Hospital Medical Center
Anupreet Sidhu
Part-time Lecturer for the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
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