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Your generosity fuels the discoveries, training and community partnerships that define our work in the Department of Epidemiology. With your support, our faculty, students, and research staff can confront today’s most urgent public health challenges with the goal of improving health outcomes around the world. Every gift, of any size, helps drive innovation and prepares the next generation of epidemiologists to make a lasting impact.
The Abe Lilienfeld Scholarship Fund
Created in honor of Dr. Abraham Lilienfeld, known as "the father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology," the Abe Lilienfeld Scholarship Fund provides resources to master’s students for essential needs (e.g., health insurance, living expenses) so they can focus on their coursework and research. This fund ensures that we can have students like Sunan Gao, a 2025 ScM graduate, whose research addressed the relationship between cognitive decline and physical activity in older adults. Learn more about this work.
Epi Doctoral Student Support Fund
The new Epi Doctoral Student Support Fund provides important research and travel support for our doctoral students to visit field sites, collect data and present their research findings. Under the mentorship of our faculty, Epi doctoral students are engaged in a variety of research areas including aging, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV, and mental health.
Faculty Innovation Fund
The new Wade Hampton Frost Fund is intended to support our early career faculty in the pursuit of bold, high-impact ideas that advance public health research. We are looking to support faculty like Michael Fang, who along with his colleagues Jung-Im Shin and Elizabeth Selvin, recently published a paper that showed increased use of continuous glucose monitoring (essentially a personal 24/7 monitor to track blood sugar/glucose) among persons with type 1 diabetes in the U.S. Importantly, this increased uptake was associated with corresponding increases in optimal blood sugar control. Learn more about this work.