Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard School of Public Health

The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is Harvard University's School of Public Health. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area, next to Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

The School's objectives are:

• to provide the highest level of education to public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders
• to foster new discoveries leading to improved health for the people of this country and all nations
• to strengthen health capacities and services for communities
• to inform policy debate, disseminate health information, and increase awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right. ^[1]

History

The School was founded in 1922 out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first graduate training program in public health. ^[2]

Curriculum

The Master's in Public Health Program - MPH offers seven degree concentrations:

• Clinical Effectiveness (CLE)
• Family and Community Health (FCH)
• Health Care Management and Policy (CMP)
• International Health (IH)
• Law and Public Health (LPH)
• Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH)
• Quantitative Methods (QM) ^[3]

Centers and Institutes

• Center for Health Communication
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
• Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
• Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
• Harvard Injury Control Research Center
• Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HSPH HAI)

Notable Alumni

John Boice, ScD '77, radiation epidemiologist

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/mph/zMPHConcentrations.htm

External links

• Harvard School of Public Health Website
• Professor Andrew Speilman, Professor Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health Freeview Issues programme on Malaria by the Vega Science Trust.

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