Health, Behavior and Society

Dancing with Danger

HBS professor Susan Sherman wants the high-risk world of Baltimore’s strip clubs to be safer for the women who work in them. Learn More

Stop Racism, Improve Health

PhD students Cory Bradley and Kelly King argue that public health must fearlessly confront society's unequal distribution of power and opportunity. Learn More

When will autonomous vehicles save lives?

Andrea Gielen, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, weighs in on the promise of automated vehicle technologies. Learn More

Packs of Lies

After scouring store shelves in 14 countries, researchers from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control amassed over 3,000 tobacco product packs. The mission: to study health warning labels and marketing themes. Learn More

Listen to Your Mother-In-Law

When staff from the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) sought a VIP to star in a media campaign about nutrition in Nepal, they turned to a very influential person: a mother-in-law. Learn More

Research, Enhanced

Health issues in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer communities extend beyond HIV. The LGBTQ Working Group aims to further research and practice in LGBTQ health at the Bloomberg School. Learn More

News & Events

Opinion: An 18 Percent Decline in HIV Incidence in the U.S. over Six Years is Not Enough (Huffington Post)
As More Hotels Ban Smoking, Peer-to-Peer Rentals May Draw Smokers (Reuters)
Op-Ed: Trump's War on Women (Baltimore Sun)
Hopkins researchers suggest Baltimore offer addicts safe places to do drugs (Washington Post)

The Department of Health, Behavior and Society is discovering the optimal ways we can change human behavior to improve public health.

From social policy and social environment to individual behavior change—our faculty and students address multiple health problems around the world including obesity, sexually transmitted infections, injury, and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.

Established in 2005, the Department of Health, Behavior and Society remains dedicated to research and training that advances our understanding of how behaviors within an environmental context operate at the individual, organizational, community and societal levels—and to promoting effective interventions.