# Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School **Entity class:** Academic department The **Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School** is the Dell Medical School department through which clinical medicine, public health, epidemiology, community partnerships, and population-level health improvement are joined. [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] holds a courtesy professorship in the department. For the pandemic-modeling cluster, the department represents the receptor and implementation layer: forecasts and intervention models encounter clinical conditions, hospital capacity, local populations, public-health operations, and decisions that affect care delivery. ## Relationships - **part of:** [[wiki/Dell Medical School|Dell Medical School]] at [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]]. - **courtesy faculty:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]]. - **research interfaces:** [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]], [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]], and [[wiki/Austin Public Health|Austin Public Health]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Lauren Ancel Meyers — Dell Medical School](https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-ancel-meyers) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [Department of Population Health — Dell Medical School](https://dellmed.utexas.edu/units/department-of-population-health) (accessed 2026-09-23).