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From: Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 17:37:59 -0500
Subject: New Program in The History of Public Health and Medicine (fwd)
To: Spirit of 1848 <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: nancy krieger <[log in to unmask]>

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:49:44 -0800
From: David Rosner <[log in to unmask]>

Announcement:

Columbia University is pleased to announce the creation of a Program in
The History of Public Health and Medicine (HPHM).  The program, to begin
in September 1998, will offer two degrees: a Masters in Public Health
(MPH) and a PhD in History. This program brings together the faculties
of three of the nation's leading research and educational units: The
Columbia University School of Public Health's (SPH) Division of
Sociomedical Sciences (SMS), the Columbia College of Physicians and
Surgeons' Center for the Study of Society and Medicine and the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences' Department of History. The goal of the
Program is to equip its graduates with skills that will provide them
with the ability to work in academic, policy and administrative
positions.

The MPH in History of Public Health and Medicine:

The MPH will provide students planning to work in professional
disciplines and policy positions a method for analyzing the
intellectual, social and political circumstances that have shaped health
policy. This two-year program will provide competency in both public
health and historical analysis. Students will be required to take the
core courses for the MPH degree and to chose a sequence of specialty
courses in an appropriate public health discipline such as epidemiology,
environmental and occupational health, health policy, family planning
and child health or other sociomedical sciences.  Students will also be
required to take courses in the history of public health and medicine.
Depending the student's area of interest, elective courses will be
available    political, urban, cultural, labor, women's,
African-American, intellectual and environmental history.

The following courses will be required for the program:

        Core courses in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Sciences
and Health Policy and Management (12 credits)

        Historical Methods I & II (6 credits)

        History of Public Health (3 credits)

        History of Medicine   (3 credits)

        History and Public Policy (3 credits)

        Three Electives at the Graduate Level in History (9 credits)

        Three Electives in Public Health (9 credits)



        Example

        A student interested in the history of urban health practice might add
courses in urban history, urban health, hospital administration and
health planning.

        A student interested in the history of environmental or occupational
health might add specialized courses in environmental or labor history
in the History Department and environmental or occupational health at
the School of Public Health.

The PhD in History of Public Health and Medicine:

A small number of students will be admitted directly into the PhD
Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine. Others will be
selected to continue in the doctoral track following completion of their
MPH. Doctoral students will further their historical training by
completing the requirements for a doctorate degree as required by SMS
and the History Department. The PhD will prepare students for university
professorships and leadership positions in government, voluntary and
private agencies.

Who Should Apply?

Public health practitioners,  policy analysts, epidemiologists,
practicing physicians, and lawyers, as well as recent college graduates
with a background in history, sociology, political science, or ethics
are encouraged to apply for admission.

The Setting:

New York City provides a unique combination of resources for the
historian and the public health practitioner. It brings together a wide
range of public health concerns with one of the world's most
comprehensive network of medical care and social services. Its history
has been shaped by longstanding concern for the problems of poverty and
disease and it has been a laboratory for a variety of national and local
experiments in social welfare and health planning. New York City houses
a rich mix of archival records stored in public and private agencies as
well as extensive manuscript and personal collections. Some of the
leading libraries in the world for the study of the history of public
health and medicine are located here as well: the New York Public
Library, the New York Academy of Medicine ( second only to the National
Library of Medicine in its holdings) and the libraries of Columbia
University. Students have easy access to the National Archives in
Washington, D.C. and to the extensive network of archives and
collections throughout the northeast.

The program bridges the two main campuses of Columbia University. The
School of Public Health's Division of Sociomedical Sciences and the
Center for the Study of Society and Medicine are located at the Health
Sciences campus at 168th Street and Broadway. In addition to public
health laboratories, clinics and the Presbyterian Hospital, the Health
Sciences campus is home to the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library
and Archives. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, located on
Morningside Heights at 116th Street and Broadway, is home to the
Department of History and Butler Library, one of the nation's premier
research libraries and rare books and manuscript collections. Shuttle
busses as well as public transportation link the two campuses.

The rich intellectual and faculty resources of some of New York's
leading universities are available through a collaborative
Inter-University Program in the History of Health and Society. The New
York Academy of Medicine is only a short distance away.

Financial Support

Virtually all doctoral students receive substantial financial support.
Limited support is available for MPH students. Housing is also available
through Columbia University's Student Housing Program.

Faculty

The program draws on a distinguished and diverse faculty whose interests
include the history of hospitals and other health-related institutions,
of  infectious disease policy, of occupational disease, of immigration,
of ethical issues in human genetics, of human experimentation, of urban
and minority health and of public health policy. In addition to a core
faculty of historians, the program draws on epidemiologists, physicians,
and ethicists.

Application Information
For application information and financial aid materials please contact:
Martina Lynch, Administrative Assistant, Columbia University, School of
Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Program in History of
Public Health and Medicine, 100 Haven Avenue, 17H Tower 3, New York, NY
10032.

Affiliated Faculty

Public Health and Medical History

David Rosner, MSPH, PhD, Co-Director Designee;  David Rothman, PhD,
Co-Director

Ron Bayer, PhD; Barron Lerner, M.D., PhD; Amy Fairchild, MPH, PhD;
Richard Neugebauer, MPH, PhD; Gerald Oppenheimer, MPH, PhD;  Sheila
Rothman, MSW, PhD.



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Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
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