The School Of Public Health And Tropical Medicine is the only school of public health in the state with the only department of tropical medicine in the nation. The School may assist you with statistics on population health issues with a special emphasis on disease prevention and early detection.

Expertise within the school includes, but is not limited to:
  • Behavioral science
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Community empowerment
  • Environment and health
  • Gerontology
  • Health outcome research
  • Health policy & management
  • Infectious diseases, especially tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, denge, encephalitis, parasites, worms and tropical HIV
  • Industrial hygiene
  • Minority health
  • Mortality studies
  • Nutrition
  • Hypertension research
  • Study design & interpretation
  • Women's health

Institute for Health Services Research
The Institute faculty actively work with policymakers to identify options, provide analyses of their impacts and costs, and define implementation issues and evaluation. This direct link between state-of-the-art research and policy implementation is an important part of the Institute's role and mission. Institute faculty work with policymakers in Louisiana, the region, and the nation.