About Us

The Department of Public Health Sciences is an academic department in the School of Medicine. The department provides teaching for medical students and consulting in epidemiologic and statistical methods for all departments of the school and is active in research on Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity, particularly as to ethnic differentials in occurrence.

The department occupies 5,500 square feet of office space in the Maguire Center, located at the main medical facility and maintains a lab on the second floor of the Maguire Center which houses the instruments and equipment necessary to conduct all on-going research.