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Health Behavior and Health Promotion

The Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion places a strong focus on community-engaged research and practice.

Our faculty and students collaborate with communities and organizations at the local, state, national and international levels to identify health disparities and devise strategies to improve health outcomes, work that aims to improve health disparities and provide opportunities for longer, more fulfilling lives.

Academic programs

Research expertise

Icon of hands holding a heart Health equity disparities and health equity

Icon of a person writing notes on a notepad Social determinants of health

Icon of lit cigarette Tobacco and substance use

Icon of a cancer cell Cancer prevention and control

Icon of a syringe with needle Vaccination adoption

Icon of gender symbols - male, female and non-binary Sexual and reproductive health

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Student experience

Najhee Purdy
Najhee Purdy, MPH-MD, Health Behavior and Health Promotion

Najhee Purdy reflects on experience in MPH-MD program

Kaitlyn Jones with autumn leaves in the background
Kaitlyn Jones, MPH, Health Behavior and Health Promotion

MPH student dreams of becoming a city health commissioner

Division faculty

Liz Klein
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Chair

“Many health problems that we experience are influenced — positively and negatively — by the choices we make as individuals and as communities. Our faculty use and teach evidence-based strategies in behavioral science to promote change at the individual, policy, system and environmental levels. We invite you to become part of a discipline that is central to improving and extending the lives of all people.”

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Latest news

CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 14: Marchers, led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, walk through the Englewood neighborhood calling for an end to the violence that has plagued the city on April 14, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The marchers stopped several times to reflect on the Stations of the Cross and to read out the names of Chicago homicide victims. With 14 homicides so far in 2017, Englewood is one of the most violent neighborhoods in the city. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Julianna Nemeth

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