John D. Bower School of Population Health (SOPH)

Administration

• Thomas E. Dobbs, MD, MPH, Dean

• Victoria M. Gholar, DNP, MSN, PMH-BC, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

• Bernadette Grayson, MCR, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs

History

The John D. Bower School of Population Health (SOPH) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson was established in 2016 by the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning. The John D. Bower School of Population Health was designed to complement, strengthen, and extend the capacity for scholarship across UMMC and to assist in achieving the institutional missions by supporting rigorous approaches to investigation and transformational education in the science of biostatistics and data science, population health science, and preventive medicine.

Contact

John D. Bower School of Population Health
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 N. State St.
Jackson, MS 39216
Office: (601) 984-1020
Email: PopHealth@umc.edu