1. 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

2. NEW CAMPUS NAME SLIDE

3.
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

4.
RESEARCH
22 centers and institutes in health sciences
75 research labs and research centers focused on health and disease

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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

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

10. And 12 start-up companies

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

12. StemCultures
StemBeads
NeuraCell

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

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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. Health Sciences Campus
THANK YOU
and now Dean Nasca

20. 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.

21. 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.

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

23. 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

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

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

26. 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

27. 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.