Today's health challenges are global, involving diseases that must be understood at the cellular level and addressed at the community level. These problems require the development of new interventions, the implementation of new models, and the emergence of new systems. They demand educated professionals, well versed in the multiple disciplines of public health, to forge the best solutions.
Located in the heart of the largest academic health center in the Southeast, the UAB School of Public Health is embracing these challenges in Alabama and around the world, building the next generation of bold professionals leading innovation in public health. Let us become your place of discovery and training.
Our faculty and staff constitute a community of outstanding scholars and professionals who together create a uniquely innovative public health curriculum and foster a dynamic and timely research agenda critical to the health of the nation. Our diversity of disciplines, interests, faculty and students encourages an unparalleled intellectual vitality within a university heralded for its research capabilities.
As you learn more about us, I am confident you will feel the exciting possibilities for your public health education and career. I encourage you to explore all that the School has to offer. And, when you are ready, please come visit us.
MISSION
To develop, teach and apply knowledge to promote health and prevent disease.
VISION
A community of outstanding scholars and professionals leading innovation in public health and recognized for improving the health of the citizens of Alabama and the world.
OUR VALUES
Respect for every individual
Open and honest communications
Positive, supportive behavior
Celebration of individual diversity
Teamwork
Integrity
Excellence in everything we do
Making a difference in the community
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