Register for the upcoming Information Session for the Ph.D. in Population, Health and Place. 
Fall 2026 Applications are now open.
 

⏰ Date/Time: Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 4 - 5 pm (PT)

📍 Location: Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) B57J  and via Zoom

Registration Link: https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/7hzoc8R9SQ2323CgFdHOzg

In our innovative interdisciplinary doctoral program, you have the unique opportunity to train with world-class faculty from the Department of  Population and Public Health Sciences of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute for careers in research, teaching and applied for work in sociology and demography (population), preventive medicine (health), and the spatial sciences (place). This Ph.D. program is ideal for scholars interested in the intersections of public health, urban and global health, social and cultural geography, remote sensing, epidemiology, and demography.

Read a sample of USC faculty research from our interdisciplinary Population, Health, and Place Ph.D. program. Learn about the "Spatial Turn in Health Research" in this Science article by Douglas B. Richardson, Nora D. Volkow, Mei-Po Kwan, Robert M. Kaplan, Michael F. Goodchild, and Robert T. Croyle. Doug Richardson, executive director of the American Association of Geographers, also advocates for "The New Imperative: Spatializing Health Research and Practice."

Speaker Panel:

• Daniel Hackman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
• Jennifer Unger, Ph.D., Professor, Population and Public Health Sciences
• John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Founding Director and Professor, Spatial Sciences Institute