Global Health Research

Tufts University is recognized as a top research university, especially in biomedical research. Areas of exceptional depth on the Tufts health campus include infectious and emerging diseases around the world, including HIV/AIDS and water-borne illness; cutting-edge statistical analysis, including meta-analysis and outcomes-based clinical research; nutrition policy and science; and health communication.

Global Health Research

Lucy Horton, M.D./M.P.H. '12 travels to Vellore, India, working to unravel an epidemic of chronic kidney disease.

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Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University are international leaders in innovative medical education and advanced research. The School of Medicine and the Sackler School are renowned for excellence in education in general medicine, biomedical sciences, special combined degree programs in business, health management, public health, bioengineering and international relations, as well as basic and clinical research at the cellular and molecular level.

Ranked among the top in the nation, the School of Medicine is affiliated with six major teaching hospitals and more than 30 health care facilities. Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School undertake research that is consistently rated among the highest in the nation for its effect on the advancement of medical science.