“Population Health” for FIU aims to find solutions in partnership with informed stakeholders committed to the task. The potential threats include climate change, epidemics, widespread economic hardship, workforce adequacy, food quality and sufficiency, housing, external and internal migration, and political crises transcending national borders.

The Population Health Initiative (PHI) at FIU is based on a model of cooperative linkages across FIU academic units that accelerates the highest quality of research by facilitating and supporting the interdisciplinary work of our scholars at every phase of development, leading to extramural support. The Population Health Initiative at FIU will be a 20-year initiative supported by a $10M endowment from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH). The Initiative will support university-wide collaboration and will involve faculty leaders from across FIU colleges.

FIU is collaborating with the University of Washington Population Health Initiative, which launched in 2016, to support the visioning for the launch of FIU-PHI. FIU-PHI and the UW Population Health Initiative are also exploring potential opportunities for partnership in population health-related research and training.