UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Berkeley Way West.jpeg
Berkeley Way West, home of the School of Public Health
Other name
Berkeley Public Health [1]
School of Public Health [1]
Type Public
Established1943 [2]
Parent institution
 University of California, Berkeley
Dean Michael C. Lu
Address
2121 Berkeley Way
,
Berkeley
,
California
,
United States

37°52′25″N122°16′05″W / 37.873649°N 122.267964°W / 37.873649; -122.267964
Website publichealth.berkeley.edu
Berkeley School of Public Health logo.svg

The University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, also called Berkeley Public Health, [1] is one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is currently accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. [3]

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History

The School of Public Health has its origins in the Department of Hygiene, which pioneered much of California's start of the 20th century public health endeavors. [4] It was Karl F. Meyer, however, whose compelling 1930s Public Health curriculum demonstrated a pressing need for a school devoted to the study and practice of public health. [2] Local professional leaders, including Lawrence Arnstein, Ford Rigby, and William Sheppard, used the momentum set in motion by this curriculum to successfully appeal the California State Legislature to create such a school. The result was AB515, signed into law by Governor Earl Warren in 1943, which appropriated funds for a school of public health at the University of California. [2] Shortly thereafter, in 1944, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health held its first commencement. It was accredited by the American Public Health Association two years later, becoming the only accredited school of public health west of the Mississippi River. [5]

In 1955, the school was relocated to be closer to the state health department; Earl Warren Hall was dedicated by Clark Kerr as the new home of the School of Public Health. [5] The baccalaureate degree program continued, but the school began to devote much of its resources to graduate training. At this point, graduate enrollment hovered near 100 students. It soon trebled to 335 students in the mid-1960s, with an annual conferment of around 150 degrees. [2]

Key laboratories in the School of Public Health during the middle of the century were the Naval Biological Laboratory, which focused primarily on aerobiology and related microbial research, and the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory which, maintained with the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, pioneered inquiry in the Environmental Health Sciences. [2] The school also played a direct role in community health for years, working with the unified school district, Visiting Nurse Association, and city to provide health services to the Berkeley community through the Berkeley Unified Health Plan. [2]

Academics

Degrees awarded

Once enrolled at the School of Public Health, students may seek education in one of six concentrations: Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Policy & Management, and Infections Diseases & Vaccinology. [6] The school also offers an online Master of Public Health, an undergraduate program, and concurrent degrees in business, city planning, journalism, public policy, and social welfare. [7]

In 2021, the school graduated 539 students. Among those graduated, 231 received a Master of Public Health (MPH), 12 received a Master of Arts (MA), 24 received a Master of Science (MS), and 208 received Bachelor of Arts (BA). The university also awarded 26 MPH degrees to joint candidates, including 15 Master of Business Administration (MBA) students, 3 Master of City Planning (MCP) students, 3 Master of Public Policy (MPP) students, 3 Master of Social Welfare (MSW) students, 1 Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) student, and 1 Master of Journalism (MJ). [8] Berkeley also offers a number of joint MD/MPH programs with the Stanford University School of Medicine and UCSF.

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Berkeley's Master of Public Health program 10th in the nation in 2024. [9]

Notable alumni

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