Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard School of Public Health is (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, HSPH is considered one of the most prestigious schools focusing on health in the United States. It is the country’s second-oldest school of public health. Founded in 1922, the Harvard School of Public Health grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation’s first graduate training program in public health. The dean of HSPH, Barry R. Bloom, recently announced he will step down from his current position but remain active with the school. Julio Frenk, the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and a former executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO), will become the new dean of HSPH starting January 2009.[1] Admission to HSPH is selective: For the class beginning in 2006-2007, 4.
