Research at SPH
Through our education, research, and community outreach, we focus on improving the health of populations.
We emphasize prevention of illness and injury, and we look at health through a multi-faceted prism that includes physiology, the environment, communities, economics, and public policy.
Our faculty members are among the leading experts in public health today.
Research Overview
Our Productive Faculty
For the fourth consecutive year, our faculty rank number one per capita (meaning grant monies awarded per faculty member), making the school the most fiscally productive unit on campus—and the most productive per capita school of any U.S. school of public health housed at a public university.
We are No. 1 in a ranking of awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for public U.S. schools of public health. For the fifth consecutive year, the SPH ranks third in NIH funding for all public health schools in the nation.
We Have Grown
Faculty ranks increased by 37 percent from 2004 to 2008, growing from 95 members to 131. The faculty body is the largest in the school’s history.
Contact Information
Dean's Office
Phone: 612-624-6669
Fax: 612-626-6931
School of Public Health
Mayo Building A302, MMC 197
420 Delaware St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0381
E-mail: sphdo@umn.edu