WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY? Pierre FOURNIER Dean, School of Public Health Université de Montréal

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL IN 2013?

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (1) 1912Tulane University the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine begins operating as a separate school 1913Conference on the need for public health education in the US … a new profession of public health is needed … allied to medicine but also distinct with its own identity and educational institutions 1915Welch-Rose Report … need for adequately trained public health workers … scientific basis of public health … independent of medical school, in a university setting and also independent of the structure of state public health services

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? A VERY SHORT HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2) 1916The Rockfeller Foundation approved the plan to organize a School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore … School of Public Health and Hygiene … WH Welch Founding Dean 1922Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers (1913) became Harvard School of Public Health with an endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation DL Edsall Dean of the Medical School and the School of Public Health The Rockefeller Foundation supported : 1924Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Bejing-China 1927School of Public Health and Institute of Hygiene in Zagreb (Croatia) 1927School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto (Canada)

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH?  Public health is a wide area of knowledge and research and also a set of practices belonging to different historical grounds (German medical police, French state protection, British industrialisation and urbanisation challenges …) and political contexts  Underlying rationale one century ago for public health schools Only independent academic institutions may address the public health problems that are complex  In 2015 these assumptions are even more relevant Health issues/problems/determinants and solutions are global and more complex

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? THE RATIONALE A field of study and interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of : Basic & Biomedical Sciences Animal & Human Health Sciences Social and Human Sciences Management Science AT UoM in 2013

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? THE INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE 1. Autonomy and visibility Establish links and develop new training and research programs with other academic units UdeM Strengthening ties with our research partners and practice environments 2. Institutional commitment to develop a center of excellence AT UoM in 2013

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? YOUNG BUT … 1911Public Hygiene Diploma Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene School of Hygiene 1956Institute of Hospital Administration School of Public Health Departments transferred to the Faculty of Medicine : Health administration, Social and preventive medicine and Hygiene (became later Environmental and occupational health) attempts … 2013 School of Public Health AT UoM in 2013

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? SOME OF OUR ASSETS 3 departments + Unit of International Health (54 tenured and non tenure professors/researchers, 165 adjuncts, 18 administrative staff, 717 students-fall 14) Strong links with research centres (in and off campus) and professional institutions Academic programs PhD with 5 options 5 Master (Public Health accredited by the CEPH and Health administration by the Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Management Education-since 1967) Residency Program in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (Joint with the Faculty of Medicine) Non degree programs : 6 one year, 6 one term (including 2 on line) AT UoM in 2013

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? SOME OF OUR FIRST STEPS 9 chairs (8 research-4 CIHR-1 joint with FacMed, 1 education,) 3 new collaborative programs One health-MPH track (Veterinary medicine) Biostatistics-MSc (Faculty of sciences) Clinical research-MSc (Faculty of medicine) New or revised programs MSc Public Health with 7 tracks (follows CEPH requirements for school accreditation) 4 Professional (one year will become DrPH) MSc Epidemiology PhD bioethics Applications MSc Public Health + one year program AT UoM in

WHY A SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AT UoM in 2013