Aarhus Faculty of Health Sciences, or simply Health, is one of four faculties at

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, Denmark. The head of Health is dean Lars Bo Nielsen. Academic teaching in medicine began with the foundation of Aarhus University in 1933 and the Faculty of Health was created in 1992, when the Aarhus College of Dentistry merged. On 1 January 2011, large structural reforms and expansions came into effect at Aarhus University and the faculty was renamed Health. The faculty has worked closely with the

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since 1936.

Departments

Health comprise five academic areas and departments: * Department of Biomedicine * Department of Clinical Medicine * Department of

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and Oral Health * Department of

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* Department of Public Health The faculty offer degree programs in all five academic areas.

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Departments

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