University of Michigan School of Public Health

Notable faculty

• Thomas Francis, Jr., mentor of Jonas Salk; ran field trials of oral polio vaccine that deemed it safe and effective
• John R. Griffith, Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy; co-author of The Well-Managed Health Care Organization
• Rebecca Hasson, kinesiologist
• Neal Krause, health behavior and health education expert
• Paula Lantz, past Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy
• Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine
• Ken Warner, past Dean of the School of Public Health; worked successfully to implement a non-smoking University of Michigan campus on July 1, 2011
• Marc A. Zimmerman, former chair Health Behavior & Health Education; Director of the Prevention Research Center and Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center

  Notable alumni

• Larry Brilliant, physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org
• Julio Frenk, former Minister of Health in Mexico; former dean of Harvard School of Public Health
• David Michael Green, MacArthur Foundation Fellow
• Albert H. Wheeler, first African-American Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician who was a key whistleblower revealing the Flint Water Crisis which exposed children to dangerous levels of lead in Flint, Michigan.