The Department of Public Health forms an integral part of the Medical School at the University of Aberdeen. In public health, the aim is primarily to prevent disease, to prolong life and to promote health.
Health is affected by many elements in people's lives.
The Department reaches out to health professionals and to many other different groups and organisations in society, advancing the study of all the factors that can make people health or unhealthy - genetic, environmental and social. Our work involves doctors, nurses, health visitors, educationalists and many others who are interested in health and committed to improving the conditions in which people live. In 1911 it became a separate subject in the undergraduate curriculum and in 1913 a separate Lecturer in Public Health was appointed. Separate accommodation was not found until 1924, when all public health teaching and staff were grouped together under the leadership of Dr. Parlane Kinloch .