Centennial: New vision for the Harvard School of Public Health

(Harvard Gazette, November 04, 2013)

100 years after its founding as the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the Harvard School of Public Health has presented a new vision for education that has emerged from a three-year process of evaluating the past and looking to the future. As part of its plans, the School is launching a new doctorate program and revamping its master’s in public health program. The new vision is needed, school officials said, as public health seeks to meet the challenges of a changing world and build on the dramatic gains of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. Those gains include the development of effective treatments for diseases that had plagued humankind for millennia, and rapid growth in life expectancy.