public health

  1. September 25, 2023

    U-M gets $17.5M for outbreak response network at SPH

    U-M is among 13 institutions that will be part of a national network of centers focused on predicting and responding to future disease outbreaks. A $17.5 million grant will establish the Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling.

  2. February 13, 2023

    ‘Beyond Rhetoric’ project works to fight racism in Genesee County

    Flint-area leaders and public health researchers, including a UM-Flint faculty member, students  and U-M’s Poverty Solutions, are sharing their process for responding to racism as a public health crisis.

  3. February 13, 2023

    Heritage Project — ‘The dignity of man’

    Thirty-five years after receiving his medical degree from Michigan in 1931, Paul Cornely called on schools of public health to better prepare their graduates for addressing the health challenges facing African Americans. 

  4. November 16, 2022

    School of Public Health announces two new interdisciplinary initiatives

    The School of Public Health has launched two new initiatives under its Public Health IDEAS umbrella that will focus on preventing the spread of infectious diseases and building health equity.

  5. October 3, 2022

    WHO director general to receive Thomas Francis Jr. Medal

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general for the World Health Organization who has led it through the COVID-19 pandemic, will be awarded the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health.

  6. August 5, 2022

    U-M updates community on monkeypox ahead of fall term

    The university is sharing information with the campus community related to the spread and prevention of the monkeypox virus as it prepares for the start of the fall 2022 term.

  7. March 21, 2022

    U-M seeks nominations for prestigious global public health medal

    U-M has named a selection committee and is seeking nominations for the Thomas Francis Jr. Medal in Global Public Health, one of the highest recognitions granted by the university.

  8. April 27, 2021

    How countries on five continents responded to the pandemic

    U-M faculty members Scott Greer and Elizabeth King analyzed early government responses from 34 countries to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and how those decisions impacted their citizens’ health and lives.

  9. February 1, 2021

    Holiday public health measures likely saved lives in state, researchers say

    Increased social distance measures over Thanksgiving and Christmas might have prevented more than 100,000 coronavirus cases in Michigan, according to preliminary findings by the School of Public Health.

  10. November 15, 2020

    Latest state order imposes further restrictions on campus activity

    The latest state order to curb climbing rates of COVID-19 means most college and university courses must be delivered remotely starting Nov. 18. Intercollegiate athletics may continue, but without any spectators.