About Us

College of Public Health, The Ohio State University

If you eat, breathe, go to work or drink water, you are impacted by public health every day. The Ohio State University College of Public Health improves the health of Ohioans, the nation and the world. Faculty and students pursue innovative research that is scientifically rigorous and relevant to our communities. The college prepares the next generation of public health practitioners, health care managers and scholars. Ohio State’s College Public Health aims to achieve the fundamental fairness of a healthy world through global significance and local impact.

The College of Public Health is an integral part of the most comprehensive health sciences campus in the nation. First established in 1995 as part of the College of Medicine, the college was created in February 2007 when the university’s Board of Trustees elevated the school to a college. It is the first and only accredited college of its kind in the state of Ohio. Specializations include biostatistics, epidemiology, health behavior and health promotion, environmental health sciences, health services management and policy, veterinary public health, and clinical investigations. The college is currently ranked 21st in public health graduate schools by U.S. News & World Report and its Master of Health Administration program is ranked 12th.

Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
www.cmh.pitt.edu

Established in 1994 with a generous grant from the R.K. Mellon Foundation, the Center for Minority Health (CMH) is committed to translating evidence-based research into community-based interventions and innovative outreach practices. The CMH provides the infrastructure, among the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences, for addressing health issues among ethnic and racial minorities and other vulnerable and underserved populations. Dr. Stephen B. Thomas is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-NCMHD Research Center of Excellence in Minority Health Disparities (2P60MD000207-07), the Director of the Center for Minority Health, and the Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice.

The mission of the Center for Minority Health (CMH) is to improve the health and wellbeing of racial and ethnic minority populations by eliminating health disparities as defined in Healthy People 2010. Through teaching, research and service, CMH engages the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences in a collaborative learning process designed to enhance the cultural competence of academic scholars and students. CMH further engages the community as trusted partners and participants in public health research and translates scientific research findings into health promotion and disease prevention interventions at the local, regional, and national levels.

Center for Clinical and Translational Science at The Ohio State University

The Ohio State University has established the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (OSU CCTS) to improve the quality of care for all patients in the community by creating a transformative clinical and translational science discipline that is at the core of the Ohio State academic culture. It supports a robust and integrated partnership between the Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital and will link these sophisticated health care systems as a laboratory for biological, clinical and behavioral research. By also working through affiliated hospital networks, a primary care network and extension offices in all 88 counties in Ohio, the OSU CCTS will allow clinical and translational research to be accomplished in innovative collaboration with the community. As part of its community engagement plans, the OSU CCTS has selected the Appalachian region of Ohio as an area of emphasis, an area with some of the state's highest poverty rates. Expanding its community-based research programs to include unique partnerships with the Appalachia Community Cancer Network and Partners for Kids, a Nationwide Children's Hospital organization, will provide clinical research opportunities to this rural community.

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Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University

The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity was established at The Ohio State University in May 2003. The focus of the Institute is national and global. The Institute’s energy is focused in the following ways:

• Fostering critical and creative thinking on concepts about race and ethnicity;
• Examining hierarchies and systems of control, domination, and oppression;
• Exploring the interrelatedness of race and ethnicity to other foci such as gender andclass;
• Examining the cultural, economic, political, and social experiences of racial and ethnic minority groups in the Americas;
• Interrogating the material conditions of life and achievement among groups who are systematically subjected to systems of domination and oppression.