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Your gift can help drive the Bloomberg School's mission by supporting our research, practice, and educational initiatives that save lives by the millions. Donors like you help us train tomorrow's public health leaders, enable faculty to make new ideas a reality, and energize research centers working to solve the toughest causes of death, injury, and disease.

Below are some of the ways a gift to the Bloomberg School can help. If you would like to designate your gift to a specific campaign, please learn more about designating your gift.

People, Education, and Training

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An endowed scholarship honors a lifelong love affair with statistics.

From sharecropper’s daughter to biostatistician, Gertrude Huster, MHS ’84, seeks to honor those who helped her dream big—at a time when few women pursued STEM careers. 

 

Gertrude Huster suited up for a pre-flight check in front of a P3-C aircraft, circa 1979.

Budding statistician and naval flight crew trainee, Gertrude Huster, circa 1979. 

Science, Innovation, and Evidence

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Eliasberg Family Foundation Funding Helps Track Avian Flu H5N1 Mutations

Private foundation philanthropy provides critical seed funding for research and strengthens case for federal funding.

In the Bloomberg School's Pekosz Lab, the team studies mutations in the H5N1 virus which could enable it to jump from domestic poultry to the human population and cause human disease, possibly even spurring a pandemic. (pictured: MMI professor Andy Pekosz and research associate Jaiprasath Sachithanandham)

Advocacy, Community, and Practice

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How South Korea’s Public Health System Rose from the Rubble of War

DrPH alumna Joung-Soon Kim helped lead the development of her country’s public health system, which ranks among the most efficient in the world

Dr. Kim's high school classmates and teacher in refugee camp in 1953 (Dr. Kim is not pictured)

Dr. Kim's high school classmates with their teacher in a Busan, Korean, camp in 1953 (Dr. Kim is not pictured)

Health Equity Scholars

By empowering them with funding, our HES students seek to address the root causes of health inequity.

Scholarship Power

Health Equity Scholars

From across the School's ten departments, these junior scientists, research trainees, and promising policy advocates and practitioners are using a social justice and health equity lens to dismantle racist structures that affect health outcomes.

2023 Health Equity Scholars luncheon

In September, the School welcomed a new cohort of Health Equity Scholars, including (l-r): Paulo Pontemayor, Rashida Callender, Mia Campbell, program director and professor Terri Powell, and Kyle Moon.

Two people work in a scientific lab

MMI Professor Andy Pekosz (R) and research associate Jaiprasath Sachithanandham examine human respiratory cell cultures infected with the virus (H5N1) that causes avian flu—research that evaluates the virus's potential impact on human health.

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