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  • The only accredited School of Public Health in Alabama

  • Over $80 million in research funding in 2024, including $31 million from the National Institutes of Health

  • Newly redesigned MPH core based on the Evidence-Based Public Health model

  • One of the fastest growing undergraduate programs at UAB

  • One of the best educational values in the southeast for Public Health

  • All MPH concentrations can be completed fully online, including accelerated learning opportunities

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    Message from our Dean

    The great challenges before us are understanding the root causes — known as social determinants of health — that shape our capacity as individuals, families, communities, and populations to become and remain healthy. We are just beginning to grasp how these determinants impact, and are impacted by, our environment, which in turn affects gene expression and individual susceptibilities to both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

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