Texas A&M Health Science Center

Specialties

The mission of the School of Public Health is to create, translate and apply knowledge in educating public health leaders, engage in public health service and research, and transfer what we have learned into public health practices and policies to improve population health. At the school, our professors care about impacting the community with their research as well as their students. Professors have research projects ranging from emergency preparedness to community health development. Yet, each of them share a passion for learning. Students use faculty as advisors, and each student participates in a practicum during their stay. Students have conducted epidemiologic studies, assisted in programs/​centers of faculty, and many others have served as interns in Texas and abroad.

History

Established in 1998.

Established in 1998 as part of Texas A&M University, the state’s land-​­-​grant university, to address the public health needs of Texas, particularly rural and underserved populations, the Texas A&M School of Public Health has attained national and international distinction and recognition.

Our vision, the future we intend to help create, is a region, nation and world in which the health of the public is enhanced to the extent possible. In that future TAMSPH is widely recognized as a major contributor to that process.

Our mission, how we are to achieve that vision, is to create, translate and apply knowledge in educating public health leaders, engage in public health service and research, and transfer what we have learned into public health practices and policies to improve population health.

Our fundamental strategy in carrying out that mission is the creative integration of education, research, practice and policy change to maximize our impact on population health status.