The University at Albany Health Sciences Campus Laura Schweitzer Vice President for Health Sciences and Biomedical Initiatives Joined by Phillip Nasca, Dean School of Public Health October 2016

NEW CAMPUS NAME SLIDE

www.albany.edu/healthsciences ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 40 undergraduate courses in health sciences 50 additional graduate courses A dozen health sciences degree programs Early Assurance Programs (Medicine, PA, Dental) Ten dual or joint degree programs NEW! Pharmacy, Cytotechnology, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Developing - DO, PT, Nursing

www.albany.edu/healthsciences RESEARCH 22 centers and institutes in health sciences 75 research labs and research centers focused on health and disease

Home to the largest concentration of individual health science-related entities in the Capital Region

The most notable building is the University at Albany’s Cancer Research Center with its Center for Functional Genomics. Other University Centers on East Campus include: The Cardiac Quality Improvement Initiative The Center of Excellence for Maternal and Infant Health The Center for Global Health The Center for Health Workforce Studies The Center for Molecular Genetics The Center for Public Health Continuing Education The Global Institute for Health and Human Rights The Institute for Health and the Environment The Center for Functional Genomics

And the George Education Center – home of the School of Public Health The UAlbany School of Public Health: A highly-productive government/educational collaboration. The 30-year partnership between the School of Public Health and the NYS Department of Health’s Wadsworth Labs. Unique outside of the CDC/Emory University relationship.

Current non-University residents and tenants include: Regeneron, AMRI, Taconic Albany Medical Center’s Urological Research Center Albany Medical Center’s Neurosurgery Research Rotations Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Pharmaceutical Research Center

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Pharmaceutical Research Institute Commercializing the development of a nano-scaffold for various vascular disorders

And 12 start-up companies

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY & ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER g.tec neurology USA

StemCultures StemBeads NeuraCell

New companies in the last year: Coming P H A R M aceut icals Health Data Analytics Vaccines

The Future: Launched Enhancements The Health Sciences Campus now houses our Innovation Hot Spot for Biotech

The East Campus was redesignated as the Health Sciences Campus to reflect what it already is: Home to the largest concentration of health science-related entities in the Capital Region

The East Campus was redesignated as the Health Sciences Campus to reflect what it already is: Home to the largest concentration of health science-related entities in the Capital Region And where it is headed: The University at Albany’s East Campus will be New York State Capital Region’s premier location for health-related collaborations – a place where academia, government and the private sector intersect in mutually beneficial ways to further our understanding of health and disease.

Health Sciences Campus THANK YOU and now Dean Nasca

School Origins In the 1980s, David Axelrod M.D., then the New York State Health Commissioner, collaborated with then-University at Albany President Vincent O’Leary to establish the School of Public Health. 2015 marked the 30th anniversary of the School and its unique collaboration with the New York State Department of Health. The School attracts students from all over the world to prepare them for leadership roles in the field of public health, both abroad and in the United States.

School of Public Health Quick Facts Based on a 30-year formal collaboration with the New York State Department of Health. 44 University paid faculty. Additional faculty members from the New York State Department of Health and Albany Medical College. 490 graduate students enrolled in MS, MPH, Ph.D., and Dr.PH degree programs. Undergraduate major expected to enroll 150 students by 2018.

Accreditation – Council on Education in Public Health Epidemiology Health Behavior CEPH Biostatistics Health Policy and Management Environmental Health

School of Public Health Centers and Institutes Center for Global Health Center for Continuing Health Education Center for Public health Preparedness Center for Cardiovascular Studies Center for Health Workforce Studies Institute for Health Systems Evaluation Institute for the Advancement of Health Care Management Cancer Research Center Institute for Climate, Environment and Human Health

Research Productivity – University at Albany Faculty Over the past five years: $12.8 million in new research grant support 359 scholarly publications

Public Health Training Programs From 2011 through April 2015, continuing education online programs reached 151,000 people.

Faculty Two (2) members of the National Academy of Sciences National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Awardees Three Distinguished University Research Professors Members of NIH and CDC Study Sections Fellow of the American College of Cardiology Fellow and Past President of the American College of Epidemiology Howard Hughes Institute Investigator Recipient of the James D. Watson Investigator Award Multiple recipients of other national research awards

Global Public Health Training Center for Global Health – partnerships with health-related schools in China, Romania, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, the Republic of Georgia, Turkey, Vietnam, Kuwait, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation and Mongolia.