Programs & Resources

At the School of Public Health

Diversity Initiatives and Support
Sponsors programs, events, and support services through the SPH Office of Academic Affairs. Contact Tesenga Sha' Duncan Smith, coordinator, (734) 936-3296.

Public Health Students of African Descent (PHSAD)
Committed to creating and fostering a sense of community and collective responsibility primarily among African-American students at SPH.

Asian American Public Health Association (AAPHA)
Helps health professionals empower themselves by increasing visibility and awareness of Asian-American health issues.

OUTBREAK
OUTBREAK supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally public health students by providing a safe and supportive environment, advocating for their rights against discrimination, and providing resources to make their education a positive experience.

Summer Enrichment Program in Health Management & Policy
Through a structured summer work experience, encourages undergraduates to consider health management and policy as a career in which they can address health disparities.
News release on 2008 program.

Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP)
Offers students training in cancer epidemiology in international settings, including Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Turkey. Domestic internships focus on minority U.S. populations.

Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH)
Prepares students to address the public health needs of an increasingly diverse society by providing a forum for basic and applied research on racial and ethnic differences in health

Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Devoted to understanding health inequalities from socioeconomic, behavioral, social, psychological, biological, developmental, community, and international perspectives.

Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (URC)
Supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based participatory research that both improves the health and quality of life of families and communities in Detroit.

Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured
Aims to diversify the pool of experts who study health insurance coverage trends and provide better insight into why people become uninsured.

Global Health Programs & Initiatives
An emerging Center for Global Health initiated by SPH, with support from the UM Provost's Office, complementing a wealth of existing interdisciplinary projects.

Healthy Environments Partnership
A community-based participatory research project designed to examine and address aspects of the social and physical environments that contribute to disparities in risk of cardiovascular disease in Detroit.

Life Sciences & Society
Promotes education, research, and community engagement on issues that arise from the ethical and social ramifications of the life sciences.

Michigan Center for Public Health & Community Genomics
Seeks to integrate genomic discoveries into public health practice, with consideration of the ethical, legal, and social issues associated with the application of these discoveries, as well as the involvement of the community at large.

Prevention Research Center of Michigan Conducts community-based prevention research aimed at improving health status and reducing morbidity and mortality among populations experiencing a disproportionate share of poor health outcomes.

Reach Detroit Partnership
Provides a community driven approach to preventing diabetes and its related conditions and improving quality of life through partnerships and collaborations.

Post-Doc Programs

At the University of Michigan

Office of Institutional Equity
Serves as a vital resource and leader in promoting and furthering the University’s commitment to diversity and equal opportunity for all members of its community.

National Center for Institutional Diversity
Where leaders from a variety of fields can come together to develop the models, networks, and tools needed for a sustained engagement with diversity.

Program for Research on Black Americans
Established in 1976 at UM's Institute for Social Research to provide critical health and mental health data to support academic scholarship and public policy; now directed by SPH's Harold "Woody" Neighbors.

Spectrum Center
Provides education, information, and advocacy services for an open, safe and inclusive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, and staff, their families and friends, and the campus community at large.

Non-Discrimination Policy Notice

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In the News

New in June 2008 from the National Library of Medicine: MEDLINE/PubMed Search and Health Disparities & Minority Health Information Resources

"Diversity Matters at Michigan," a comprehensive web resource, was launched October 4, 2007. More.

The third annual Diversity Summit on October 4, 2007, showed diversity efforts moving forward at the University of Michigan, from new tools being used in admissions and financial aid processes to programs for attracting and retaining faculty and staff. Read more in the University Record article.

Facts

Among the top five nationally ranked schools of public health, the University of Michigan enrolls the highest percentage of students from health disparity populations (37.6%). Source: ASPH 2005 data

Several UM SPH researchers (including Woody Neighbors, Linda Chatters, and Cleo Caldwell as principal investigators) continue to publish papers based on findings from the The National Survey of American Life: Coping with Stress in the 21st Century (NSAL) undertaken by the Program for Research on Black Americans at UM ’s Institute for Social Research. It's groundbreaking work on psychological and social factors in a large, representative longitudinal national sample of Black Americans.

UM has, as one of its core values, an abiding commitment to sustaining a community in which the dignity of every individual is respected. SPH emphasizes that value in every aspect of its climate.

A Unique Partnership with Michigan's Communities (PDF) highlights dozens of SPH collaborations to improve well-being and reduce health disparities across the state of Michigan.

A new online Minority Data Resource Center at the UM Institute for Social Research provides help in topics related to racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S.

Research expenditures by the University of Michigan reached $797 million in fiscal year 2006, a 2.4 percent increase over the previous year.