The Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC carries out a wide range of research and offers world-class educational programs. Unique in its collaborative nature and transdisciplinary approach to education and research, the department takes a broad and encompassing focus, reflecting the expansive scope of population health and preventive medicine. Notable research contributions include: 

• The relationship between hormones and cancer
• Exercise as a means to reduce breast cancer risk
• Impact of air pollution on childhood lung function development
• Advances in the etiology, treatment and prevention of pediatric obesity
• Interaction between genes and the environment