Endowed Faculty Honored at Investiture
March 3, 2025
One outstanding Michigan State University College of Human Medicine endowed faculty member was honored at a university investiture ceremony on February 18th at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in East Lansing, Mich.
Each year, the ceremony is a celebration of faculty who represent MSU's commitment to academic excellence and innovation, and the donors whose generous support is making a difference for these highly prestigious, actively engaged faculty positions.
The 2024 honoree is:
Richard Sadler, PhD, MPH
C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health
Richard Casey Sadler, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health in Flint. He earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental science and planning from the University of Michigan-Flint, and a PhD in geography from the University of Western Ontario.
A geographer through and through, Sadler was initially a ‘fish out of water’ in public health. But since joining MSU in 2015, he has expanded his expertise, working with a range of research and community partners and completing his master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University (where he attended as a Bloomberg Fellow).
Dr. Sadler’s research is aimed at strengthening the understanding between the built environment and health behaviors/outcomes, with the goal of shaping land use policy to build healthier cities. His work is integrated with community organizations, and Sadler’s work leans heavily on geographic information systems to identify and address disparities in the social determinants of health.