Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was the first institution of its kind in the world.

Founded in 1916 by William H. Welch and John D. Rockefeller, it is the largest public health school in the world, with 470 full-time and 550 part-time faculty, and 1,800 students from 71 countries. It receives nearly one-quarter of all federal research funds awarded to the 32 U.S. schools of public health, and has research ongoing in the U.S. and more than 50 countries. It has consistently been ranked the number one school of public health by U.S. News & World Report.

The school is composed of ten different academic departments: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, International Health, Mental Health, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Population and Family Health Sciences, and Behavior and Health.

The school was recently renamed after a major donation by Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City.

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A case can also be made that the Army Medical School (AMS), founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893 was the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine. The AMS was the precursor institution of the current Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project