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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2011
Former names
Harvard School of Public Health
TypeGraduate school
School of Public Health
Established1913; 111 years ago (1913)
Parent institution
Harvard University
DeanDavid Hunter (Acting)
Academic staff
480
Students1,140
474
Location
Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°20′07″N 71°06′10″W / 42.335390°N 71.102793°W / 42.335390; -71.102793
Websitewww.hsph.harvard.edu
HSPH Courtyard Entrance from Harvard Medical School

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly Harvard School of Public Health) is the public health graduate school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts adjacent Harvard Medical School. The Chan School is considered a preeminent school of public health in the United States. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,[1][2][3][4][5] the nation's first graduate training program in population health, which was founded in 1913 and became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922. Michelle Williams, faculty and chair of the school's Department of Epidemiology, will become the school's dean in July, following the departure of former dean Julio Frenk and interim service of acting dean David Hunter.[6] She will become the first African American individual to head a Harvard faculty.[7]

As of 2015, the school is ranked second in the nation (after the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and tied with University of North Carolina School of Public Health) in the U.S. News & World Report.[8] U.S. News consistently ranks Harvard #1 in Health Policy and Management.[9]

History

The School traces its origins to the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, founded in 1913; Harvard calls it "the nation's first graduate training program in public health." In 1922, the School for Health Officers became the Harvard School of Public Health, and in 1946 it was split off from the medical school and became a separate faculty of Harvard University.[10] It was renamed the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014 after receiving a $350 million donation, the largest gift in Harvard's history at the time, from the Morningside Foundation.[11] The Morningside Foundation is headed by Harvard School of Public Health alumnus Dr. Gerald Chan, the son of T.H. Chan.

Curriculum

The Master of Public Health Program (MPH) offers seven degree fields of study:

  • Clinical Effectiveness (CLE)
  • Health and Social Behavior (HSB)
  • Health Policy (HP)
  • Health Management (HM)
  • Global Health (GH)
  • Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH)
  • Quantitative Methods (QM)[12]

Degree programs offered by specific departments:

  • Biostatistics: ScM, PhD
  • Environmental Health (EH): ScM, PhD, ScD, MOH, DPH
  • Epidemiology (EPI): ScM, ScD, DPH
  • Genetics and Complex Diseases: PhD
  • Health Policy and Management: ScM, ScD, PhD
  • Health Care Management: ScM
  • Immunology and Infectious Diseases: ScD, PhD
  • Nutrition (NUT): ScD, DPH, PhD
  • Global Health and Population (since 2009, formerly Population and International Health) (GHP):
Health Economics (ScD)
Health Systems (ScD)
Population and Reproductive Health (ScD)
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS): ScM, ScD, DPH
  • Population Health Sciences (Interdisciplinary PhD within departments of EH, EPI, GHP, NUT, and SBS)

PhD programs are offered under the aegis of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Research projects

  • The Nurses Health Study and Nurses Health Study II, which have followed the health of over 100,000 nurses from 1976 to the present; its results have been used in hundreds of published papers.[13]
  • The Health Professionals Followup Study, a similar study of over fifty thousand male health professionals seeking to connect diet, exercise, smoking, and medications taken to frequency of cancer and cardiovascular disease.[14]
  • The International Health Systems Program, which has provided training or technical assistance to projects in 21 countries, and conducts health policy research[15]
  • The Program in Health Care Financing, which studies the economics of national health care programs; evaluates the health care programs of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries; studies the effects of bringing HMO-like hospital reimbursement practices to developing countries; and applies hedonimetrics to health care.[16]
  • The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), which studies public health and humanitarian law and policy in the context of conflict-torn regions like the Gaza Strip and transnational issues like terrorism.[17]
  • The Lung Cancer S.O.S. study, examining the risk factors for and prognosis of lung cancer in terms of genetics and environment.[18]
  • The College Alcohol Study, which examines the causes of college binge drinking and approaches to prevention and harm reduction.[19]
  • The Program on the Global Demography of Aging, which studies policy issues related to economics of aging with a focus on the developing world.[20]
  • The Superfund Basic Research Program (see Superfund), studying toxic waste management.[21]

Notable faculty (and past faculty)

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ Datz, T., Harvard School of Public Health celebrates 100 years of global health leadership, HSPH press release, August 28, 2013, accessed 01/19/2016
  2. ^ Harvard Public Health @ 100 Years, HSPH website, accessed 01/19/2016
  3. ^ History, from About HSPH, reprinted online from HCSPH Fast Facts booklet, accessed 1/19/2016
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ [Who We Are, from HCSPH Admissions website, accessed 1/19/2016]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ [3]
  8. ^ 2015 Ranking of Best schools of Public Health in US by U.S. News & World Report.
  9. ^ [4]
  10. ^ HSPH Catalog - Harvard School of Public Health
  11. ^ [5]
  12. ^ MPH Program - Harvard School of Public Health
  13. ^ NHS :: The Nurses’ Health Study » Front
  14. ^ HPFS - About Us
  15. ^ International Health Systems Program at Harvard
  16. ^ Program in Health Care Financing - Harvard School of Public Health
  17. ^ Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR)
  18. ^ http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/lungcancer/
  19. ^ College Alcohol Study
  20. ^ Global Demography of Aging
  21. ^ The Superfund Basis Research Program at Harvard University
  22. ^ [6]
  23. ^ [7]
  24. ^ "George Chandler Whipple." (1925). Jour. American Water Works Association. 13:1, 93-4.
  25. ^ Galford, Hugh S. (August 2007). "The Over-Educated Garbage Man: Minister Winston Dang of Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration". Washington International. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
  26. ^ Bloom, Barry R. (Winter 2007). "Dean's message: Leaders worth following". Harvard Public Health Review. Retrieved 30 September 2009.

External links

Centers and Institutes

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