The Office of Health Sciences Alumni Relations supports and creates lifelong connections by enhancing the student experience, creating bonds within the alumni community and fostering a culture of inspired loyalty to Pitt. Our staff members create and manage opportunities for alumni engagement, professional development, networking, mentorship and reconnection across the schools of the health sciences and promote research and programs to alumni and friends of Pitt.
The schools of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh have a community of more than 60,000 alumni and more than a century of academic excellence in the fields of dental medicine, health and rehabilitation sciences, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health.
Our schools work every day to ensure health care delivery, biomedical research and education are continuously evolving. Thanks for being part of that journey!
Schools of the Health Sciences
The Schools of the Health Sciences work to advance scientific discovery, clinical innovation, and the education of future researchers, physicians and health care providers, and administrators.
Since 1896, the School of Dental Medicine has been preparing students to take their place among the best dental practitioners, researchers and educators in our region, across the country, and around the world.
The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences supports an interprofessional approach to research to address challenges for people with acute and chronic conditions and disabilities.
The School of Medicine strives to improve the health and well-being of individuals and populations through cutting-edge biomedical research, innovative educational programs in medicine and biomedical science, and leadership in academic medicine.
The School of Nursing is dedicated to providing students with a strong educational foundation to conduct evidence-based practice, engage in scholarly activities, and translate health sciences knowledge to improve the delivery and practice of nursing.
School of Pharmacy students, alumni, faculty, and staff members strive to solve complex medication-based problems of today and tomorrow. As innovators, they discover new drug entities and develop new drug-delivery systems.
The Graduate School of Public Health is actively involved in expanding knowledge in the realm of public health through scientific inquiry and innovation. It has conducted groundbreaking research, from the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s to today’s virtual modeling of the spread of infectious disease.