Quick facts: UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Name |
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health |
Founded |
1967 |
Dean |
Eric Boerwinkle, PhD |
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Highlights |
#1 School of Public Health in Texas (U.S. News & World Report 2024) #9 Publicly Funded Graduate Schools of Public Health (U.S. News & World Report 2024) #25 Public Health School in the U.S.A. (U.S. News & World Report 2024)#1 in Texas, and #16 nationally in NIH Funding (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research 2024) $24.8 million in research grants funded by NIH through September 2023 (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research 2024) |
Number of students |
1,501 (as of Fall 2023) |
Number of faculty |
205 (as of Fall 2023) |
Number of alumni |
10,000 and counting |
Locations |
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Dallas UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in El Paso UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Houston UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in San Antonio |
Departments |
Biostatistics and Data Science Epidemiology Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Health Promotion and Behavioral Science Management, Policy & Community Health |
Degree programs |
44 total graduate degree programs; 8 master’s, 9 doctoral, 18 dual degrees, 14 accelerated master’s |
Certificate programs |
20 total certificate programs; 15 available to non-degree seeking students |
Research Centers |
17 |
Research expenditure (FY 2023) |
$24.8 million in research grants funded by NIH through September 2023 (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research 2024) |