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ABOUT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH VISION FOUNDED Stronger Communities, Healthy People—Our Tradition 1998 LEADERSHIP MISSION Dean Shawn G. Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH FACULTY Texas A&M School of Public Health is committed to transforming public health 57 through interdisciplinary inquiry, innovative solutions and development of leaders ENROLLMENT through the Aggie tradition of service to engage diverse communities worldwide. 847 Undergraduates 417 Public Health Minors VALUES 65 Environmental and Occupational Health Minors 261 MPH A—Accountability: Meaningful impact 78 MHA G—Global and diverse: Our research crosses borders 11 PhD G—Generosity: Through selfless service 53 DrPH CAMPUSES I—Integrity: In everything we do Bryan-College Station, McAllen E—Excellence: In teaching, research, service and practice ACADEMICS S—Social Justice Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH)

Master of Public Health (MPH) P—Professionalism: Leaders paving the way Master of Health Administration (MHA)

H—Honor: Respect for all Master of Health Administration—Executive (MHA) Doctor of Public Health Sciences (DrPH) RESEARCH Doctor of Philosophy in Health Services Research (PhD) Minor in Public Health • Over $12 million in new research awards. Minor in Environmental and Occupational Health • Research expenditures total over $100 million since the school’s inception through RESEARCH CENTERS funding from NIH, CDC, NSF, HRSA, ACL, private foundations and others. The Ergonomics Center • Over 280 faculty research publications in 2020. Southwest Rural Health Research Center • SPH researchers are leading COVID-19 modeling and public health response Center for Community Health Development initiatives that span across all TAMU and TAMU-S campuses in Texas Center for Health Organization Transformation Center for Population Health and Aging • Impact through public health interventions and/or research all 254 counties in USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness Texas. DEPARTMENTS • Leading national researchers in occupational and environmental health, health Health Policy & Management policy and economics, healthy aging, community health and health disparities. Environmental & Occupational Health Epidemiology & Biostatistics Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

RESEARCH CONTINUED • Collaboration on Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grants totaling over $ 8 Million since school's inception. • Home of Rural Healthy People 2010 and 2020-the rural focused counterpart to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2010 and 2020.

• Strong University-industry commercialization ties with 32 patents by EOH faculty.

RESEARCH AWARDS

• $5.363 million: Texas Health and Human Services Commission to evaluate the 1115 Texas 1115 Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program Waiver • $4.9 million: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Multi-state Initiative to Reduce Childhood Obesity • $2.8 million: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-Southwest Rural Health Research Center “The practicum experience • $2.689 million: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention-Working on provided by the Texas A&M Wellness (WOW) School of Public Health offers the • $2.68 million: National Institutes of Health-Physical Activity Impacts of a Planned Activity-Friendly Community: The What, Where, When and Why of Environmental opportunity for hands-on learning in Approaches to Obesity Prevention community health; specifcally, applying • $2.591 million: National Institutes of Health-Fighting Obesity by Reinventing Public what I learned in the classroom to the Transportation • $2.068 million: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Outstanding New real world and furthering my Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award–Mechanisms of particulate matter driven commitment to impact the health of infant respiratory disease (RO1) • $1.786 million: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National populations across the state. The Institutes of Health-National COVID-19 Vaccine Study (PreventCOVIDU) experience was tremendously important • $1.35 million: Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas-Continuation/Expansion in preparing me for a successful career of Texas A&M’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program for Underserved Women through a Family Medicine Residency in public health.” • $1.035 million: Improved AD/ADRD Assessment Sensitivities Using a Novel In-Situ KRISTINA BEAUGH

Sensor Systems CLASS OF 2014 • $1.019 million: Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-Privacy WASHINGTON, D.C. Preserving Interactive Record Linkage via Information Suppression • $1 million: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Education building resources to reduce the STUDENT EXCELLENCE transmission of COVID-19 among migrant and seasonal farm workers, food services • Master of Health Administration (MHA) providers and their communities program improved ranking to 28th from 33rd

in U.S. News & World Report 2019. INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS • 98 percent job placement of Environmental • Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) and Occupational Health graduates with

• Xiamen University (China) starting salaries averaging $76,000.

• Nanchang University (China) • Twelve students’ research competitively selected among elite group nationwide to • Wuhan University (China) participate in Delta Omega National Honorary • Daejeon Health Institute of Technology (South Korea) Society research presentations at the American • Medical University of Graz (Austria) Public Health Association annual meeting. • North South University (Bangladesh)

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