The Harvard School of Public Health (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, HSPH is considered one of the most prestigious schools focusing on health in the United States. It is the country's second-oldest school of public health. Founded in 1922, the Harva...
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The Harvard School of Public Health (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, HSPH is considered one of the most prestigious schools focusing on health in the United States. It is the country's second-oldest school of public health. Founded in 1922, the Harvard School of Public Health grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first graduate training program in population health. Julio Frenk, the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and a former executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO), became the new dean of HSPH in January 2009.
Admission to HSPH is selective: For the class beginning in 2006-2007, 4.5% of nearly 10000 applicants were admitted, and 60% of those admitted enrolled. Half of the class that entered in 2006 had a GPA between 3.50 and...
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