University of Southern California

Please note that some students do not have access to the health center during the summer. Before coming to the health center, please call 323-442-5631 to verify your eligibility. To find out how you can gain access to the health center during the summer, please click here.

To Students Traveling in High Risk areas for Yellow Fever This Year: The manufacturer of the Yellow Fever Vaccine, Sanofi Pasteur, recently announced that the Yellow Fever vaccine will be unavailable from mid-2017 to mid-2018, due to delays in the production process. For further information or for other options, please go to: http://www.sanofipasteur.us/vaccines/yellowfevervaccine

As soon as you know your travel plans, please make your appointment with the Travel Clinic. We might not be able to provide this vaccine on short notice.

Beginning at 12:01am on May 10, 2017 and continuing through midnight August 13, 2017, no referrals will be necessary for care outside the student health center. Referrals will be required again beginning at 12:01am August 14, 2017.

It will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday, 4/28 and continue until completion on Sunday, 4/30. Click here for a map view of the closure.

Addictive prescription drugs that are thrown away or left untended on shelves and in drawers at home are often stolen and either abused or sold by family members and visitors. That’s why the DEA and thousands of its state, local, and tribal law enforcement and community partners are holding another Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, April 29, from 10 am to 2 pm local time, at over 5,000 sites around the country.
The service is free of charge, no questions asked.

According to the CDC’s Flu View, influenza activity as increased in the United States. In the picture attached, California is shown to have widespread influenza activity. If you have not received this year’s influenza vaccine, please call 323-442-5631 to make an appointment. The flu vaccine is free for all students this year at the Eric Cohen Student Health Center. Don’t let the flu affect your studies this spring semester!

If you missed the fall waiver deadline and would like to waive out of the Aetna Student Health Insurance for the Spring/Summer semesters, please follow instructions here. The deadline to waive out is January 27, 2017.

Students do not need referrals between 12:01am Monday December 12, 2016 thru midnight Sunday January 8, 2017 for care outside of ECSHC. Referrals will be required beginning 12:01am Monday January 9, 2017.

Click here to view ECSHC holiday hours. Please note ECSHC will be closed November 24-27 and December 24 – January 02. The ECSHC after hours number 323-442-5631 will still be available 24/7 during the holiday hours.

If you would like instructions on how to print or save your immunizations from MySHR, please see instructions in this document .