The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, (formerly known as The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Public Health) is an university that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various fields of public health and allied sectors. It is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health .
The instituition was ranked equal second by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report, after the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and tied with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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History
The UNC Division of Public Health was organized in 1936 within the UNC School of Medicine. Separate status as a school of public health was granted in 1939, making the School the first school of public health established within a state university. The school awarded its first graduate degrees in 1940.
Milton Rosenau, often called the "Father of Epidemiology," became the first director of the Division of Public Health in 1936 and served as the first dean of the School from 1939 to 1946. In 1949, both the UNC School of Dentistry and UNC School of Nursing were added. Along with the Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Pharmacy, the five schools formally became the University's Division of Health Affairs.
Seven deans have led the School: Rosenau, Edward G. McGavran (1947-1963), Fred Mayes (1963-1972), Bernard Greenberg (1972-1982), Michel Ibrahim (1982-1996), William L. Roper (1997-2004) and Barbara K. Rimer (2005 to present).
It is named after donors Joan Gillings and Dennis Gillings, a former UNC professor and the founder of Quintiles.
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References
External links
- UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century", an online exhibition
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