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The world is confronting unprecedented threats to health,
quality of life, and survival of our ecosystems

The world is confronting unprecedented threats to health and quality of life, and survival of our ecosystems

Population Health in the 21st Century

The world is confronting unprecedented threats to health, quality of life, and survival of our ecosystems. The search for solutions is a national and global priority. It will require many disciplines to work cooperatively to better understand underlying causes and long-range solutions to large-scale problems imperiling population health. This magnitude of effort requires organizing comprehensive responses formulated and implemented by local, regional, and global public and private stakeholders. FIU has recognized and responded to this challenge and will provide the highest quality of research and the power of convening national and international experts for developing state-of-the-art investigations, plans, policy recommendations, and pilot initiatives that will benefit population health.

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The FIU Population Health Initiative reinforces our dedication as a top-tier research institution to enhance local and global health, while providing new avenues to address South Florida’s population health challenges.  


Kenneth A. Jessell
FIU President

The FIU Population Health Initiative reinforces our dedication as a top-tier research institution to enhance local and global health, while providing new avenues to address South Florida’s population health challenges.  


Kenneth A. Jessell
FIU President

The FIU Population Health Initiative reinforces our dedication as a top-tier research institution to enhance local and global health, while providing new avenues to address South Florida’s population health challenges.  


Kenneth A. Jessell
President

Population Health at FIU

“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.

Population Health News

FIU launches Population Health Initiative to help improve health on a global scale

FIU researchers plan to tackle some of the world’s biggest health threats through its Population Health Initiative. [...]

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Health-innovation challenge encourages students to rethink barriers to care

StartUP FIU and a global pharmaceutical company bring together entrepreneurial undergraduates to address disparities. [...]

FIU wins $19.4M NIH grant to fight health disparities

The research funding will target HIV and COVID-19, Alzheimer's disease and childhood cancer among minority populations. [...]

Researchers seek end to racial bias in maternal health

The Children’s Trust has awarded FIU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) a five-year, $1.37 million grant to combat racial bias in maternal health. [...]

Our Partner Institution- University of Washington’s Annual President’s Address

University of Washington’s President Ana Mari Cauce shared her vision for how the UW will create the greatest possible impact in the world for the good of students, the public and future generations during her annual address on Oct. 12, 2023 at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium.

ASL interpretation and closed-captioning provided. Read the full text of the address (PDF).