A $100 million gift to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center will support and endow its new school of public health, the institution announced Wednesday.
The donation comes from the O’Donnell Foundation, established by the philanthropist Peter O’Donnell Jr., who died last year, and his late wife, Edith.
It is the largest gift to any school of public health at a public university in the U.S.
The school, which will now be known as the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, aims to advance public health through research as well as expand the trained workforce in the field.
