Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

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Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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MottoAdvancing public health for more than a century, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the world.
Type Private
Established1912
Dean Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity
Location
New Orleans
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Louisiana
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US
Website http://www.sph.tulane.edu
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The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is part of Tulane University, located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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History

The study of public health in Louisiana began in the early 19th century, when New Orleans suffered from endemic malaria and almost yearly epidemics of cholera and yellow fever. Attempts to control tropical diseases led to the establishment of the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834, founded by a group of young practicing physicians. The founders issued a prospectus that emphasized the lack of knowledge of these diseases and the necessity to study them in the environment in which they occurred. In 1881, formal instruction in hygiene was offered for the first time.

Samuel Zemurray provided financial support for the founding of the country's first School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Tulane in 1912. [1] Known as "Sam the Banana Man," Zemurray backed the institution in part given his own business interests in the banana industry in Honduras, which were at the time greatly affected by diseases like yellow fever. His banana schemes also prompted him to organize and support a military coup at around the same time against Honduran President Miguel R. Dávila in order to restore Manuel Bonilla to power, since Bonilla offered favorable tax breaks and railway concessions for Zemurray's business interests. As part of his work in Honduras, Zemurray contracted with United Fruit Company, which was also one of the first financial backers of the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The school's launch in 1912 was significant, and as it was part of the movement to establish similar institutions around the world. It was hailed by academicians nationally and internationally as the first such school in the United States, where tropical diseases had had devastating effects, particularly in the South. The first Doctor of Public Health degree was conferred in 1914, well before the founding of any other school of public health.

Later, in 1919, the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine merged back into the College of Medicine. The departments of tropical medicine and preventive medicine then merged to establish the department of tropical medicine and public health. Tulane joined the Council on Education of Public Health in 1947. With public health and tropical medicine rapidly expanding, an administrative division of graduate public health was created in 1958, and was re-designated as the Division of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1961. In 1967, the Hygiene and Tropical Medicine interests reverted to being its own entity of Tulane University and became today's iteration of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Departments

The Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has seven academic departments:

Centers, institutes, and training grants

Training Grants

Reputation

The mission of Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is to advance global public health and decrease health disparities through excellence in education, research, and collaborative partnerships

The students, faculty, and staff represent more than 70 cultures from around the world.

Students enroll from more than 40 different countries, and the school remains in the top tier of accredited schools of public health across the country. U.S. News & World Report's 2015 edition ranked the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 12th among public health programs. [17] In 2008, the school conferred the first bachelor of science in public health degrees to the first undergraduate class of Tulane public health graduates. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012. [18]

The school also has a joint degree program with Tulane's School of Medicine, offering the MD/MPH degree. It is the oldest such program in the country, as well as the largest.

Degrees Conferred

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Deans

Location

Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is located at 1440 Canal St, New Orleans, Louisiana in the Central Business District neighborhood. Its building is one of the tallest buildings in New Orleans, and is colloquially known as the Tidewater building. The area of the CBD that the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is in is currently being referred to as the Bioscience District, and was previously referred to as the Medical District. [20] The BioDistrict is the site of $1.09 billion [21] in new construction for the University Medical Center project replaced Charity Hospital. [22] An additional ~$1.0bn was spent in the neighborhood on the new Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System VA Hospital. [23] The BioDistrict also includes the new 66,000 square foot BioInnovation Center and the 155,000 square foot Louisiana Cancer Research Center. The Tidewater building is most easily accessible by road, street car, and Tulane University Shuttles. [24] The Tidewater Building is short walk from Vieux Carré.

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  2. ↑ "Department of Biostatistics and Data Science". School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Department of Global Health Environmental Health Sciences". School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
  4. ↑ "Epidemiology | School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine". sph.tulane.edu. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
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  6. ↑ "Department of International Health and Sustainable Development | School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine". sph.tulane.edu. 11 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
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  10. ↑ "Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics". SPH&TM. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  11. ↑ "Global Community Health". Tulane SPHTM.
  12. ↑ "Tulane Health Office for Latin America". Tulane SPH&TM.
  13. ↑ "The Mary Amelia Women's Center". SPH&TM. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  14. ↑ "Office for Global Health". Tulane SPH&TM.
  15. ↑ "Prevention Research Center". Tulane SPH&TM.
  16. ↑ "Office of Health Research". Tulane SPH&TM.
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  18. ↑ "A Century of Commitment to Global Health 1912-2012". Centennial Celebration. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  19. ↑ Degrees offered. Accessed October 2, 2014. http://www.sph.tulane.edu/publichealth/academics/index.cfm
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  22. ↑ "Lawmakers approve New Orleans hospital proposal". Houston Chronicle. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  23. ↑ "Project Legacy".
  24. ↑ "University Shuttles". Tulane University. University Services.

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