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Innovation in Public Health Infrastructure Research Centers Explore the interdisciplinary centers driving applied research and community health impact across Texas and beyond.

• Center for Community Health and Aging
• Center for Health and Nature
• Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research
• Center for Worker Health
• Southwest Rural Health Research Center
• USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness

Transformational Public Health Research Research With $43M in new awards and 265+ publications, our research fuels solutions in every Texas county and beyond.

• New awards from 9/1 /24 to 8/31/25 were $43.3 million.
• Researchers published more than 265 peer-reviewed papers in 2024 and have made impacts through public health interventions and/or research in all 254 counties in Texas.
• Research expenditures since the founding of the School exceed $171 million, with funding from federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private sources.
• School of Public Health researchers are national leaders in rural health policy, community health and aging, healthcare access and equity, emergency preparedness and response, health economics, program evaluation, occupational and environmental health, and behavioral health.
• Advancing Emergency Response and Public Health Preparedness through research initiatives focused on trauma triage implementation and evaluation. A federally funded project—nearly $1 million in support—is supporting EMS agencies nationwide in adopting and assessing the 2021 Field Trauma Triage Guidelines. Through recruitment, funding, performance monitoring, and development of national guidance, this work strengthens emergency medical systems and informs best practices across diverse communities.

Grant-Funded Breakthroughs Research Awards See the major awards powering public health projects in disaster response, environmental health, mental health, and youth wellness.

• $25 million: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts - Texas A&M University Opioid Prevention for Students K-12 (TOPS)
• $5 million: Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc., Safer Water Projects - This project will evaluate environmental health risks in water and soil by integrating biomarker analysis with community-centered approaches that will assess exposure to hazardous substances such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury in the Colonias
• $965,000: Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Basic Overarching Cooperative Agreement for the Joint Disaster Medicine, and Public Health Ecosystem (Ecosystem BOCA)/Field Trauma Triage Guidelines Demonstration Project
• $952,000: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Tulane University, Region 6 Center for Health Security and Response Readiness
• $943,000: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Understanding Protective Factors for the Mental Health and Suicide Consequences of Gulf Climate-Related Disasters

Faculty Highlights Faculty Highlights Our faculty are nationally recognized for excellence in research, teaching, public engagement, and leadership in public health.

• Marcia Ory, PhD, named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Shawn Gibbs, PhD, chaired a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine workshop on Personal Protective Equipment for Influenza A (H5N1) in High-Risk Farm Settings.
• Cason Schmit, JD, named to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics of the Health Resources and Services Administration.
• Timothy Erickson, PhD, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in epidemiology and biostatistics to conduct research and teach in Malawi in southeast Africa.
• Jennifer Griffith, DrPH, received the Texas A&M University Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching.
• Selina Stasi, DrPH, received the Texas A&M University Community Engagement Award.
• Joshua Yudkin, PhD, received the Dorothy Huskey Excellence in Health Education Practice Award from the Texas Society for Public Health Education.
• Cory Cobb, PhD, named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.

Academic Departments Departments Meet the core academic units shaping tomorrow’s public health leaders through specialized expertise and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

• Environmental & Occupational Health
• Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• Health Behavior
• Health Policy & Management

Degrees That Drive Public Health Forward Academics Explore our undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs preparing students for high-impact careers in health and research.

Enrollment Totals: 2,633 majors and 377 minors
(Average GPA of BSPH students exceeds 3.5)

• Bachelor of Science-2,068
  • Allied Health
  • Community Health
  • Public Health
• Master of Public Health-338
  • Biostatistics
  • Environmental Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Policy and Management
  • Occupational Health and Safety
• BSPH/MPH (3+2) - 39
• Master of Health Administration-91
• DrPH-49
  • Environmental Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Behavior
• Doctor of Philosophy-48
  • Health Education
  • Health Services Research
• Minors-377
  • Occupational Safety & Health
  • Public Health

Student Achievements and Recognition Student Excellence Our students earn national rankings, volunteer thousands of hours, and lead in honors programs and professional development.

• Ranked #1 in Texas and #27 of 218 Schools and Programs of Public Health by U.S. News and World Report.
• 6th largest public health school student body in the nation.
• The MHA program is ranked #28 out of 96 programs in Healthcare Management by U.S. News and World Report.
• EpiAssist student volunteers provided more than 4,000 hours assisting state, regional and local health departments of Texas with outbreak investigations, disasters and emergencies, community health assessments and other projects.
• BSPH students are actively involved in three learning communities:
• Broad Street Society Honors Learning Community
• Public Health First-Generation Scholars
• Public Health Honors Program