April 9, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health has as soon as once more been ranked by peer leaders as the highest public college of public well being within the United States, and quantity two general. The 2024-2025 rankings had been revealed April 9 by U.S. News and World Report.

Dean Nancy Messonnier

“I take great pride in our top ranking,” says Nancy Messonnier, MD, dean and Bryson Distinguished Professor in Public Health on the Gillings School. “I’m also proud that we continuously strive to do more and do better. Our expanded initiatives around public health practice, behavioral health, and the environment and health will better prepare students to lead in a rapidly changing world. We’re also focusing on opportunities with generative AI and working to address persistently high rates of maternal and newborn illness and death.”

“As always, when I celebrate the School’s ranking, I am really celebrating the faculty, students, staff, alumni, donors and advisers who work together to make a healthier world for all,” she provides. “Only through their support — and in the excellent company of our fellow schools and programs of public health — can the Gillings School achieve so much for the health of the nation and the world.”

This announcement marks the sixth consecutive rankings interval by which UNC Gillings was ranked second general and the primary public college of public well being by the journal. The Gillings School constantly has been ranked among the many high three faculties and applications of public well being by U.S. News for the reason that journal first ranked public well being faculties in 1987.

The general college rankings are primarily based on peer evaluation surveys despatched to deans and different directors or college in any respect Council on Education for Public Health-accredited faculties and applications of public well being.

The 2024-2025 rankings additionally embody 5 specialty areas of public well being. All Gillings School departments that had been ranked in these particular person classes positioned throughout the high ten.

The Department of Health Behavior was ranked second; the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology had been ranked third; the Department of Health Policy and Management was ranked fourth; and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering was ranked eighth.

Full rankings can be found on the U.S. News and World Report web site.

Contact the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health communications staff at sphcomm@unc.edu.