University of Michigan School of Public Health
Graduate school
Type | Public |
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Established | 1941 |
Parent institution | University of Michigan |
Dean | F. DuBois Bowman |
Students | 868 (FA 2015) |
Location | Ann Arbor , Michigan , US |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | sph.umich.edu |
The University of Michigan School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Michigan. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, UM SPH is one of the oldest schools of public health in the country and is also considered one of the top schools focusing on health in the United States. Founded in 1941, the School of Public Health grew out of the University of Michigan's degree programs in public health, some of which date back to the 19th century.
Notable faculty
- Thomas Francis Jr., mentor of Jonas Salk; ran field trials of oral polio vaccine that deemed it safe and effective
- Rebecca Hasson, kinesiologist
- Sharon Kardia is the Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology
- Neal Krause, health behavior and health education expert
- Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine
Notable alumni
- Larry Brilliant, physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org
- Julio Frenk, former Minister of Health in Mexico; former dean of Harvard School of Public Health
- David Michael Green, MacArthur Foundation Fellow
- Mary Hawn, chair of surgery at Stanford University and member of the National Academy of Medicine
- Albert H. Wheeler, first African-American Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician who was a key whistleblower revealing the Flint Water Crisis which exposed children to dangerous levels of lead in Flint, Michigan.
References
External links
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University of Michigan
Located in: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- American National Election Studies
- Business Engagement Center
- Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems
- Environmental Research Institute
- Global Feminisms Project
- Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments
- Institute for Social Research
- Michigan Aeronautical Research Center
- Michigan Life Sciences Corridor
- Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
- National Quality Research Center
- University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
- Black Action Movement
- Compulsive Lyres
- The Detroit Partnership
- Eclipse Jazz
- Graduate Employees' Organization
- Inter-Cooperative Council
- "Let's Go Blue"
- Michigan Marching Band
- Michigan Ultras
- Phi Delta Theta House
- Men's Glee Club
- Naked Mile
- Order of Angell
- Pops Orchestra
- Social Venture Fund
- Society of Les Voyageurs
- Solar Car Team
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Theta Phi Alpha
- "The Victors"
- "Varsity"
- "The Yellow and Blue"
- Founded: 1817
- Students: 52,065 (2023)
- Endowment: $17.9 billion (2023)
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