The
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly
Harvard School of Public Health, as
HSPH; now also referred to the
Harvard Chan School,
The T.H. Chan School,
The T.H. Chan School of Public Health, or still simply
The Chan School of Public Health) is one of the professional
graduate schools of
Harvard University, is with the adjacent
Harvard Medical School located in the
Longwood Medical Area of
Boston,
Massachusetts neighborhood of
Mission Hill. HSPH is considered a globally significant
school focusing on health in the
United States. The school grew out of the Harvard-
MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first graduate training program in
population health, which was founded in 1913 and became Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
Julio Frenk, the Minister of Health of
Mexico from 2000 to 2006 and a former executive director of the
World Health Organization (WHO), had become the new dean of the school in January 2009.