School of Public Health

Vision

Stronger Communities, Healthy People—Our Tradition

Mission

Texas A&M School of Public Health is committed to transforming public health through interdisciplinary inquiry, innovative solutions and development of leaders through the Aggie tradition of service to engage diverse communities worldwide.

Values

A —Accountability: Meaningful impact
G —Global and diverse: Our research crosses borders
G —Generosity: Through selfless service
I —Integrity: In everything we do
E —Excellence: In teaching, research, service and practice
S —Social Justice
P —Professionalism: Leaders paving the way
H —Honor: Respect for all

Research

• New awards for Fiscal Year 21 (9/1/20 to 8/31/21) were $12,020,102.
• Research expenditures total over $100 million since the school’s inception through funding from NIH, CDC, NSF, HRSA, ACL, private foundations and others.
• Over 280 faculty research publications in 2020.
• SPH researchers led from March 2020-March 2021 COVID-19 modeling and public health response initiatives that span across all TAMU and TAMUS campuses in Texas.
• Impact through public health interventions and/or research in all 254 counties in Texas.
• Leading national researchers in occupational and environmental health, health policy and economics, healthy aging, community health and health disparities.
• 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, 2020, and 2030-the rural focused counterpart to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2010, 2020, and 2030.
• Strong University-industry commercialization ties with 32 patents by EOH faculty.

Research Centers

The Ergonomics Center
Southwest Rural Health Research Center
Center for Community Health and Aging
USA Center for Rural Public Health Preparedness
Center for Health & Nature
Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research

Research Awards

• $5.4 million: Texas Health and Human Services Commission to evaluate the 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
• $2.7 million: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention-Working on Wellness (WOW)
• $2.7 million: National Institutes of Health-Physical Activity Impacts of a Planned Activity-Friendly Community: The What, Where, When and Why of Environmental Approaches to Obesity Prevention
• $2.6 million: National Institutes of Health-Fighting Obesity by Reinventing Public Transportation
• $2.1 million: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award–Mechanisms of particulate matter driven infant respiratory disease (RO1)
• $1.8 million: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health-National COVID-19 Vaccine Study (PreventCOVIDU)
• $1.4 million: Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas-Continuation/Expansion of Texas A&M’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Program for Underserved Women through a Family Medicine Residency
• $1.0 million: Improved AD/ADRD Assessment Sensitivities Using a Novel In-Situ Sensor Systems
• $1.0 million: Patient-Center Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-Privacy Preserving Interactive Record Linkage via Information Suppression
• $1.0 million: U.S. Department of Agriculture-Education building resources to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 among migrant and seasonal farm workers, food services providers and their communities