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.
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About the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS)
Established in 1948 as South Florida’s first collegiate nursing program, SONHS is a world-class, prestigiously accredited, research-driven school conferring undergraduate nursing, public health, and health science degrees, as well as advanced nursing degrees. The school’s research infrastructure includes the Biobehavioral Research Laboratory, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre, Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities, NIH-supported Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training Program, and 41,000-square-foot S.H.A.R.E. Simulation Hospital Advancing Research & Education®. To learn more, visit sonhs.miami.edu.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The NIH is the world’s largest public funding source for biomedical research for the American people, investing about $41 billion annually to enhance health, increase life spans, and reduce illness and disability. More than 80 percent of NIH’s funding is awarded for extramural research, largely through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state.
