Texas A&M University School of Public Health
After 25 Years, We’ve Got Texas Covered—And We’re Growing
When Texas A&M—the state’s first public institution of higher education and today, one of the nation’s largest, with nearly 78,000 students—launched a public health program in 1998, we built on the university’s mission of service and outreach, especially to underserved populations.
Now, by infusing all that we do with Texas A&M’s unique culture of interdisciplinary inquiry, innovative solutions, and development of leaders through the Aggie tradition of service, we have become the fifth-largest School of Public Health in the country.
Highlights:
Academics
- Campuses in College Station and the Rio Grande Valley city of McAllen
- Four departments: Health Policy & Management, Environmental & Occupational Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Health Behavior
- 91 full-time faculty
- 2,824 student majors and 415 minors (undergraduate GPA 3.5)
- Student practicums in 735 Texas sites, 35 states, and 22 countries
Research
- New awards for FY23: $16.59 million (total since our founding: $130 million)
- Notable awards:
- $17.3 million: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
- $3.9 million: Health Resources and Services Administration
- $2.8 million: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- 250+ peer-reviewed papers in 2022
Faculty Excellence
- Lei-Shih Chen, PhD, received the Genomics Education Award
- Shawn Gibbs, PhD, awarded the 2022 Industrial Hygiene Impact Award
- Virender Sharma, PhD, patented disinfection process using Ferrate that can be used for hospital surfaces and in water
- Marcia Ory, PhD, received the Florence Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and Aging
- Simon Haeder, PhD, received the David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award
Interested? We’re hiring! https://public-health.tamu.edu/directory/faculty-searches/index.html