The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies ranks in the nation's Top 5 private nursing schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, alongside Ivy League institutions Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Emory, and Johns Hopkins.
For NIH research funding to all nursing schools nationwide, the school is No. 11, up five spots from No. 16 in FY 2023. The school remains Florida's No. 1 private NIH-funded nursing school, as it has been every year since 2006, when nonprofit Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) began compiling and publishing the annual rankings.
The school's NIH funding for FY 2024 totals $8,263,402 from various sources within the NIH, demonstrating the range of studies related to pressing health concerns school faculty and students are leading with promising outcomes.
Dean Hudson Santos, the Dolores J. Chambreau, RN Endowed Chair in Nursing, is principal investigator on the school's largest grant to date. "Our faculty and students are accelerating the school's already-outstanding research momentum through their expertise in the social determinants of health, commitment to team science, and passion for ending health disparities," said Dean Santos. "With significant support from the NIH—as well as our countless community and clinical collaborators—we are nurturing a vibrant research ecosystem, with unlimited potential to improve health outcomes across diverse populations throughout the region for generations to come."
BRIMR compiles NIH funding rankings in several categories, including nursing schools, using official year-end data from https://reporter.nih.gov, the NIH's searchable electronic repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and patents.
