Research

Total Research Funding in Fiscal Year 2011

EPH achieved a 39% increase in total research funding from $16,909,906 in FY10 to $23,650,478 in FY11. Sources of funding include NIH, Other Federal Agencies, The State of Maryland, Foundations and Commercial companies. The graph below shows the trend of research funding for the last five years, from FY07 to FY11.

NIH Awards in 2011

The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health is ranked 3rd out of 46 Public Health and Preventive Medicine departments in the U.S. Schools of Medicine according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research which analyzes the publically available NIH database of grant funding and ranks individual departments and medical schools according to the amount of NIH funding received in the previous fiscal year. In fiscal year 2011, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the UM School of Medicine was credited with $17,793,639 in total NIH research funding, which includes funding to any principal investigator with a primary academic appointment in the department.  This total amount of funding ranks the department as 3rd among Public Health and Preventive Medicine departments in all public and private U.S. medical schools and 1st among all public medical schools. This ranking is up from 18th in fiscal year 2007 (see figure below).