Departmental Research
This academic degree is offered by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Temple’s College of Public Health. Students who are interested in gaining research experience are encouraged to discuss potential opportunities with faculty researchers. Faculty research emphases within the department include
- health communication,
- cancer prevention,
- chronic disease prevention,
- maternal and child health,
- nutrition and obesity,
- organ donation,
- substance abuse, and
- HIV/AIDS.
Learn more about research in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
The College of Public Health contains several research centers, labs and programs associated with public health disciplines, including the
- Behavioral and Cancer Epidemiology Research Program,
- Biostatistics Core,
- Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE),
- Fox Chase Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control Program,
- Health Behavior Research Clinic,
- Health Disparities Research Laboratory,
- Public Health Law Research Center,
- Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology Research Program,
- Risk Communication Laboratory,
- Siminoff Research Group,
- Social and Behavioral Health Intervention Laboratory, and
- Water, Health and Applied Microbiology (WHAM) Lab.