BSS is the largest department in the School of Public Health with over 60 primary faculty and over 40 postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students. We offer a doctoral degree in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences and support MPH concentrations in Health Behavior, Addictions, Global Health, and Mindfulness. We also play a central role in the undergraduate public health concentration.

With faculty expertise in psychology, including clinical, counseling and social psychology, public health, human development and family studies, social work, sociology, anthropology, medicine, nursing, quantitative ecology, maternal child health, nutrition and international/global health, BSS brings together the full scope of public health researchers to investigate, and work to improve, health behavior.