A $100 million reward to the College of Texas Southwestern Medical Middle will assist and endow its new faculty of public well being, the establishment introduced Wednesday.
The donation comes from the O’Donnell Basis, established by the philanthropist Peter O’Donnell Jr., who died final yr, and his late spouse, Edith.
It’s the largest reward to any faculty of public well being at a public college within the U.S.
The college, which can now be often called the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Faculty of Public Well being, goals to advance public well being by analysis in addition to broaden the skilled workforce within the discipline.
“Peter and Edith O’Donnell understood the very important function of educational drugs in addressing the well being challenges dealing with society,” stated Daniel Ok. Podolsky, president of UT Southwestern. “Nobody has been extra beneficiant of their assist of UT Southwestern than the O’Donnells and their basis, funding lots of the medical heart’s most progressive and impactful initiatives over greater than 4 a long time.”
In whole, the O’Donnells have donated greater than $400 million to UT Southwestern.