Learn the skills to enhance, enrich, and empower the human experience. Serve your community as a health advocate, nurse, exercise physiologist, audiologist, environmental health specialist, youth counselor, hospitality & tourism specialist, food scientist, physical therapist, assistive technology specialist, and more.
We are honing skills and finding solutions that improve the quality of life for individuals, communities and families. Health and Human Development is focused on preventing problems involving health and well-being, and where such issues exist, we address them through rehabilitation and rejuvenation.
Our alumni are in professions that enrich health and well-being, fitness and activity, and living environments. Together, HHD students, faculty, staff, and community improve the quality of life through research, education, and action.
News in HHD
- HHD Interim Dean Mechelle Best is quoted among experts in the ABC News report, "Amid extreme climate and natural disasters, is California still a desirable place to live and vacation? Experts weigh in"
- Researchers Highlight More Ethical Approach to Surveying Minority Populations Impacted by COVID-19. Principal Lead Researcher is Health Sciences' Patty Kwan
- Jake Hinkel-Lipsker (Kinesiology) Named CSUN 2023-24 Research Fellow for HHD, Studying Use of Virtual Reality in Motor Skills Rehabilitation
- Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing is Now Part of HHD
- Is the Master of Science in Health Administration for you? Info session 03/13/2023, 6:00 P.M. on Zoom
- Meet the Dodgers/Campanella Doctor of Physical Therapy Scholars, 2023
- Myriam Forster (Health Sciences) Named CSUN's 2023 Jerome Richfield Fellow
Events
April 26 & 27: Kinesis, Emerging Choreography: Dance performances feature the works of undergraduate student choreographers and dancers; diverse choreographic vision, and powerful dancing. Three performances in April including evening and matinee shows. Get the schedule and ticket info.
May 10: TRENDS Student Fashion Show, Fashion Innovation: Creativity Without Limits Students design and create the fashions and produce the show. Get tickets.
Visit our News and Events page for even more news from the College of HHD.
Commencement News
Commencement and Honors Convocation:
- Commencement Student Speaker Applications are now being accepted. Visit the Commencement website to apply. Application deadline 04/07/2023.
- All Things Commencement
Visit our News and Events page for even more news from the College of HHD.
HHD Stories Come to Life Video Series
- Nina Amirian and Ariel Dankner Nursing Alums, Who Delivered Some of the Earliest COVID vaccines (E-4)
- Adrienne Borlongan and JP Lopez FCS, and Business alums; Owners, Founders Wanderlust Creamery (E-3)
- Lee Zeidman, RTM Alum, President, STAPLES Center, Nokia Theatre, and LA Live (E-2)
- Terri Stratton, HSCI Alum, CEO of El Dorado Community Health Centers in Northern California (E-1)
Watch all of HHD's videos on Our YouTube Channel
HHD Heroes Award: Do You Know an HHD Hero? The Inaugural HHD Heroes Award will recognize the success and accomplishments of a professional in one of the fields of HHD who has overcome barriers and made a significant impact through extraordinary work to improve and/or save the lives of others. These heroes are role models for students, alumni, faculty, staff, and the community. Find Out More and Nominate a Hero Today
