The department has three endowed chairs: Health Net, Inc. Chair in Community Medicine and Public Health, Doug Brugge, Ph.D., M.S., UConn Health Auxiliary/Joseph M. Healey, Jr. Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Audrey Chapman, Ph.D., M.Div., S.T.M., and Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Howard Tennen, Ph.D., was the first Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor to be named at UConn Health.