Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, located at 722 West 168th Street on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a school of public health recognized by the Council on Education for Public Health. The beginnings of the school date to 1922 when the university created the Institute of Public Health. It became an official school within the university in 1945. In 1999 it was renamed the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health after Joseph L. Mailman, a benefactor.