Interdisciplinary Themes
The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health ranks among the top five public health schools in the United States, measured by National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. Since 2000, it has won more than $1 billion in NIH fundingfor research and service in the following areas:
- Designing, conducting, and analyzing clinical trials of new health interventions
- Using computational models to prepare national responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases
- Monitoring the quality of air and drinking water
- Advancing policies to improve industrial hygiene and work safety
- Evaluating new vaccine technologies for global diseases
- Providing expert testimony to policy makers with respect to public health issues
- Developing state-level systems models of legal, economic, and operational preparedness for emergency response planning
- Addressing health disparities among under-represented populations
- Providing policy makers with credible scientific information related to potential health impacts of shale gas extraction
- Lowering the incidence of illness in schools
- Improving the ability of seniors to live longer and more safely in their own homes
- Limiting and reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS
- Improving standards of care in nursing homes
- Educating trustees of area health care providers on governance best practices
- Providing practical and effective guidance to families and schools to combat childhood and adult obesity
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“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)