The New York herald., 1922-05-14
HARVARD TO GIVE
HEALTH DEGREES
Scope of New School to BE
Opened Next Autumn Is
Announced.
PERSONNEL OF FACULTY
Tt includes DIR. ROsenau, Who
Won Gold Medal for ,Medi-
cal Service.
PERSONNEL OF FACULTY

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May 13.--The doors
OF the new Harvard School of Public
Health, the creation of which was made
possible by a generous endowment re-
ceived last fall from the Rockefeller
Foundation, which will ultimately
amount to more than $2.00G.000, will
open next September.
The first definite announcement OF
the scope of the new school was made
last night at Harvard. il states that
systematic instruction will be given
leading to the degrees of tachelor OF
public health. master of public health
and doctor of public health, while stu
dents in the school will be eligible under
certain conditions to be candidates for
the degree of doctor of philosophy In
hygiene or of doctor Of medical sciences.
''The object of the school" says the
announcement. will be to prepare stu
dents for careers in public health py
providing the scientific groundwork OF
expert. knowledge which urderlies ef-
ficient health administration, together
with some actual personal acquaintance
with modern public health practice OF
the best types. The school will offer
courses and opportunities 20 fit students
for administrative. teaching, field or
laboratory positions. To this end lee
lures, laboratory work, hospital exer-
cises, field surveys and other forms OIL
instruction will be offered by members
of the faculty and by special instructors
actively engaged in public health work.
with Medical school.
The new school is the outgrowth and
continuation Of the school Jointly con-
Quoted by Harvard and the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology since 1918,
and will also, include certain depart
ments, such as those of Industrial NY
giene and tropical medicine. which nave
hitherto. been a part or the Harvard
Medical School 1t will be closely asso-
cated with the medical school, ana TOT
the present it's headquarters will be at
the medical school buildings on Long
wood avenue, Boston. 1t will have its
own faculty, however, and to a GER
tain extent its own buildings and labora-
tories, although DR.. David l.. Edsall will
serve as dean Of both the medical school
and the school of public Health.
EFT Is recognized" says the Harvard
announcement, "that the students COM
ing to the school will differ widely In
their previous training. capacity and
desires. For this reason students Will
be allowed to follow programs of study
in accordance with their individual re-
Each student will be as
signed to a member of the faculty for
advice and guidance in selecting his
program. which must finally have the
approval of the administrative board oil
the school. 1t will thus be possible to
arrange desirable programs for those
who wish to specialize in vital statis-
n,Ni1 fAIA Aerxy
public health bacteriology, mental hy-
giene, child hygiene. &C.
The faculty of the school. in addition
to Dr. Edsall. will include Drs. Milton
J. Rosenau, Richard p. Strong, Walter
B. Cannon. Ernest f. Tyzzer, c. Macfie
Campbell and Cecil X. Drinker. all oi
the staff of the Medical School; DR.
Roger T. Lee. professor of hygiene al
Harvard who supervises the health OF
undergraduates at the college Prof
Lawrence J. Henderson, the biological
chemist: Prof. George G. Wnipple oi
the Harvard Engineering School. and
Prof. Edwin b. Wilson. now Of the NJ
I. T., who will assume the profcssorshiy
of vital statistics next autumn.
achievements of Professors.
\ OF these men DIR. Rosenan. formerl,
of the United States Public Health Ser
vice ia perhaps best known as the win
ner in 1913 Of the gold medal of Ameri
can medicine for service to humanity
DR.. Strong, internationally famous fo
his work in ridding Serbi1 Of the typhu
epidemic in 1915. was appointed II
1919 as general medical director of tn
League of Ped Cross Societies. and i
now scientific director of .he new Georg
Memorial Institute at Panama.
DR.. Cannon is an authority on tn
function OF the glands of the body. Dr
Drinker is in charge of the Harvard in
dustrial hygiene Investigations, whicl
are throwing light on the nature o
various occupational diseases and indus
trial poisonings and on the means o
preventing them. DR.. Tyzzer Is pa
biologist and will head the staff of In
structors In parasitology. DIR. Campbell
formerly Of Johns Hopkins. will be II
charge of the work in mental hygiene.
The minimum requirements for ad
mission to courses leadinng to degree
will be similar to those of the Harvard
Medical School. with the addition of Ger
tain of the fundamental medical sci
ences "The medical degree" says th
announcement, 'is not a prerequisite eX
cept in the case of students who ma
triculate for the doctorate In publi'
health. Candidates are, however. ad
vised TO obtain the medical degree be
fore specializing in public health work
Experience teaches that at present op
portunities for employment and ad
vancement to highes positions com'
more readily to those who possess ;
medical degree"