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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
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.

Budding statistician and naval flight crew trainee, Gertrude Huster, circa 1979.
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Science, Innovation, and Evidence
Ensuring a Diverse Pre-Clinical Research Program
Two friends addressed a mismatch between a researcher’s resources and the underrepresented patients he seeks to serve.

Gathered in the Rebecca Lab, standing (L-R) E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Ashani Weeraratna, Kathy Koo and her son Nick, Bob Adler, Assistant Professor Vito Rebecca; kneeling in the front row, advisees Bailey Robertson and Sumaiya Begum.
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Advocacy, Community, and Practice
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 with their teacher in a Busan, Korean, camp in 1953 (Dr. Kim is not pictured)
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Health Equity Scholars
By empowering them with funding, our HES students seek to address the root causes of health inequity.
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.

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.

Support Our Work
Your gift ensures that our world-class scientists and thought leaders can rapidly coordinate the response for emerging public health challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.