"As public health professionals, we have not and will not tolerate the overt, as well as structural racism that perpetuates the inequities in health and in all related determinants of health, such as education, housing, and employment. We will not stay silent. We call on students, faculty, and staff of the Miller School of Medicine to join us to systematically challenge the structures that support racism and discrimination in our school and in our communities by engaging in focused dialogue and advocacy that will lead to meaningful change in policy and everyday practice." – Dr. David J. Lee, professor and acting chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences
The Miller School of Medicine is the No. 1 most NIH-funded institution in Florida.
National Institutes of Health research grants are vital for advancing research that leads to a greater understanding of a wide variety of diseases and public health issues.
The Department of Public Health Sciences is the 4th most NIH-funded department out of 28 within the Miller School of Medicine.
The department was No. 8 in the 2018 federal fiscal year, rising to No. 4 in 2019.
The department is also No. 13 out of 45 public health departments within medical schools nationwide.
The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research shows that the department more than doubled in NIH-funding in one year.
Felicia Knaul, Ph.D., director of the University of Miami's Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and faculty in the Department of Public Health Sciences, is among 77 new fellows honored for their impact on health sciences. Dr. Knaul has held senior government posts in Mexico and Colombia and worked for bilateral and multilateral agencies including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and UNICEF. In 2017, she was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico along with University of Miami President Julio Frenk.
The Florida Node Alliance, one of the longest and highest-funded programs housed at and managed by the Miller School of Medicine, is a 20-year, $73.7 funded node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network framework.
In an interview with WSVN 7News, Dr. Naresh Kumar, associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, said that the concentrations were alarmingly high. Watch the full interview here.
The international peer-reviewed journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine has released a report by a team from the Miller School of Medicine on the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies in a group of South Florida firefighters/paramedics.
