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Planned School of Population and Public
Health

Planned School of Population and Public Health

Plans are underway to transform the acclaimed UCI Program in Public Health into the UCI School of Population and Public Health. We are dedicated to the achievement of health equity for all populations through research, teaching, service and public health practice, locally and globally. Championing and defending the principles of evidence-based public health science, the program’s community aspires to understand and impact population-level social, biological, and environmental determinants of health and well-being. In partnership with colleagues in the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences and UCI Health, we are training the future leaders in the field and working to raise the quality of life for people around the world.

Juliana Goswick
Director of Development
jgoswick@hs.uci.edu

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Funding Priorities

Patient and UCI Public Health Student

EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES TO BE INFORMED AND ADVOCATE FOR THEIR HEALTH

We develop innovative programs to identify optimal strategies toward healthy living, including aging in place, enhanced mental health, chronic disease control, cancer support, women’s health and stress reduction. Your gift will provide us opportunities to conduct community-based participatory research, share our knowledge and current best practices with community members and to develop certificates and degree programs to train community leaders, educators, counselors and chief wellness officers.

UCI Public Health student graduates

TRAINING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE OF PRACTITIONERS IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS

With over 1,200 undergraduate and 250 graduate students in public health, most of whom are first generation or underrepresented minorities, we have a unique opportunity to nurture a new generation of leaders of health that reflect the rich multicultural population of our community. As one of the first, largest, and most diverse public health undergraduate programs in the country, 58 percent of those enrolled are first-generation college students and the five-year average enrollment for underrepresented minority students is 36 percent. Your gifts will support our mission to provide scholarships that promote a pipeline for diversity and equity.

Public Health Students

CREATING NEW FELLOWSHIPS FOR OUR MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS

As our students commit to a rigorous Master of Public Health curriculum that includes biostatistics, epidemiology, health policy management, understanding social determinants of health, and environmental health sciences, support through scholarships and fellowships will ease the financial burden so many of our students’ face. An investment in our MPH students is also an investment in our future public health workforce.

INCREASING SEED FUNDING FOR RESEARCH INNOVATIONS

Your partnership will fund innovative research projects and training programs designed to stimulate research and nurture excellence in key health areas, including chronic disease prevention (heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes), integrative nutritional science, human development (brain), environmental and occupational health, health equity, community engagement, and global health.

ENHANCING LAB SPACE AND TEACHING CLINICS​

Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research to protect our clean air, safe drinking water, and green space. An investment in state-of-the-art facilities will result in new and critical discoveries of environmental risks to the health of our communities. Modern, fully equipped labs and teaching clinics will attract internationally recognized researchers and clinicians who will raise the stature of our already prominent faculty.

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