The University of Minnesota School of Public Health, located in

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, is a

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of the

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. The school offers 16 masters programs and four doctoral programs, which culminate in one of the following degrees: Master of Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Healthcare Administration (M.H.A.), Master of Science (M.S.), or Doctoral (Ph.D.). There are also many dual degree programs, such as those with the

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, the

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, the

Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs is a public policy and planning school at the University of Minnesota, a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is named after Hubert H ...

and

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. The School of Public Health was founded in 1944, although public health courses have been offered at the University of Minnesota since its inception in 1874. The School's faculty coordinated the pioneering Seven Countries Study directed by Professors

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and Henry Blackburn.
U.S. News & World Report
consistently ranks the UMN School of Public Health among the top 10 schools of public health in the country. Most recently in 2022, the school was ranked 11th for the 2023 school year. Since 2019, the publication ranked the schools
Healthcare Administration program
as #2 in the nation, up from #3 in 2015.

Notable people

, Professor *

Michael Osterholm Michael Thomas Osterholm (born March 10, 1953) is an American epidemiologist, Regents Professor, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. On November 9, 2020, Osterholm was named to ...

, Professor

References

External links

University of Minnesota School of Public Health main pageHistory & Mission of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
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