University Health Service

  1. March 4, 2024

    CAPS, UHS to merge into University Health & Counseling

    U-M has merged its Counseling and Psychological Services with University Health Service as a way to streamline and ease barriers to student-centered mental health care.

  2. July 6, 2023

    U-M updates vaccination policy for Michigan Housing students

    U-M has revised its vaccination policy, no longer requiring Michigan Housing students to receive a dose of bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The policy is effective July 5.

  3. May 5, 2023

    U-M expands support for faculty, staff traveling abroad

    U-M employees now have additional resources for enhanced safety and support for personal and business trips abroad, including travel health consultations and travel-abroad health insurance.

  4. November 7, 2022

    Ways to stay healthy amid rise in respiratory illness

    U-M is advising how campus community members can protect themselves from a range of respiratory illnesses amid expected increases in travel and indoor gatherings through the end of the fall term.

  5. June 16, 2022

    Ernst named chief health officer; new public health structure debuts

    Robert Ernst, associate vice president for student life for health and wellness, and executive director of University Health Service, will become U-M’s chief health officer as the university transitions to a new public health structure.

  6. April 18, 2022

    Mortenson named chief mental health officer in Student Life

    Student Life has appointed Lindsey Mortenson, currently the acting executive director and medical director for University Health Service, as the campus’ inaugural chief mental health officer.

  7. November 15, 2021

    CDC in Ann Arbor to research flu cases on campus

    A large and sudden increase in influenza among students on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus will be the focus of federal health experts seeking to learn more about how the flu is spreading and vaccine effectiveness.

  8. September 23, 2021

    Ann Arbor campus COVID activity trending downward

    The number of COVID-19 cases on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus is trending downward as the university community rounds out its first month of a more traditional fall experience with robust in-person teaching and events. 

  9. May 11, 2021

    Report: U-M officials overlooked ‘destructive pattern’ of misconduct

    An investigation into the allegations of sexual misconduct by former U-M physician Robert E. Anderson found he engaged in a “pervasive, decades-long, destructive pattern of sexual misconduct” involving hundreds of U-M students.

  10. December 10, 2020

    Faculty encouraged to use student well-being statement in syllabi

    A new Syllabus Statement for Student Well-Being that is more comprehensive than the older mental health syllabus statement, and offers more campus resources to assist students is now available.