Published Research Article

RACIAL/ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN ACADEMIC PUBLIC HEALTH: 20-YEAR UPDATE

November 20, 2019

ASPPH and New York University School of Global Health assessed data on the racial/ethnic makeup of student, graduate, and faculty populations within ASPPH-member institutions during 2016 to 2017 and how over the past 20 years these data have changed. 

In graduate student enrollment, the 20-year increase in each nonwhite racial/ethnic subgroup was ≤5 percentage points. Among tenured faculty, the 20-year increase was greatest among Asians (8 percentage points) but was <3 percentage points for black, Hispanic, and Native American faculty.