Your support strengthens our academic mission to educate the public health, nursing, and social work professionals of the future. When you give back, we move forward. Every gift counts. Every gift matters.
The College of Integrated Health Sciences relies on the generosity of our donors who partner with us to provide our students with a first-class educational experience. Support from alumni and other friends creates opportunities for students in the form of scholarships, research funding, internship funding, laboratory and infrastructure development, travel grants, invited lectures, and so much more.
Gifts to Health Sciences through the UAlbany Fund provide discretionary resources to be used according to the greatest need or opportunity.
Alternatively, gifts may be directed to any of the following funds or purposes. We invite you to browse our giving options and to select the fund you’d like to contribute towards.
When you select “make a gift”, if you don't see the fund you'd like to support listed, please post your gift under "other" then write the name of the fund in the comments to direct your gift to that specific fund.
A general fund to support the College of Integrated Health Sciences, comprised of UAlbany's public health, biomedical sciences, social welfare, and nursing programs. Funds are used at the discretion of the dean.
A fund to support the Department of Biomedical Sciences, a partnership between the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center.
Please make a gift in memory of Lenore today!
A fund to support the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, which prepares students to investigate the causes and risk factors of diseases and injuries in populations.
A fund to support doctoral practicums in public health.
A fund to support the Maternal and Child Health program, which seeks to strengthen the capacity of emerging public health professionals to support MCH populations. The program provides a wide range of academic and professional development opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community partners.
A general fund to support the nursing programs at the University at Albany.
A general fund to support the School of Social Welfare. Funds are used at the discretion of the dean. The School of Social Welfare has been training social workers for 60 years.
A fund to support the undergraduate program in public health at UAlbany, which is interdisciplinary by design and taught by both faculty based out of the University and the New York State Department of Health.
The Carol Whittaker Global Travel Award provides travel awards for graduate students within the College of Integrated Health Sciences.
A fund supporting UAlbany’s Center for Global Health, which proactively engages with a wide range of partners around the world to create educational programs, collaborative research initiatives, and health promotion interventions to help solve today’s most critical global health problems.
You can support student scholarships at the College of Integrated Health Sciences to make high-quality education more accessible for future public health, nursing, and social work professionals. If you know the fund you’d like to support, please type its name into the search function on the giving page. If you’d like to know more about specific scholarships or where needs are greatest within the College, please contact Alyssa Lotmore, our Philanthropic Officer, at [email protected].
A fund to support the University at Albany’s Cancer Research Center. Researchers at the UAlbany Cancer Research Center are working to better understand the genetic and environmental causes of cancer, while providing in-depth training to early-career scientists. Using state-of-the-art technologies, faculty and students focus on the underlying biology associated with tumor initiation and progression, as well as the development and evaluation of chemo-preventive regimens and therapeutic approaches for common cancers.
A fund to support students engaging in cancer related work and research at the College of Integrated Health Sciences.
A fund to support the Axelrod Prize in Public Health lecture. The Axelrod Prize in Public Health honors and recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of public health at the intersection of academia and government service at the local, state, or federal level. This type of work is particularly important to the University at Albany College of Integrated Health Sciences, whose public health programs were founded in partnership by the New York State Department of Health and the University at Albany.
The Dr. Katharine Briar-Lawson Lecture series is designed to educate the campus and surrounding communities on a broad range of topics related to the research and practice of social work.