Boston University School of Public Health
The Talbot Building
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| Latin: Universitas Bostoniensis | |
| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1976 |
| Dean | Sandro Galea |
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Academic staff
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150 full time, 200 part time |
| Students | 1,078 |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://bu.edu/sph |
Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1976, the School offers master’s- and doctoral-level programs in public health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's Medical Campus in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The school has more than 6,500 alumni, 150 full-time faculty, 200 part-time faculty; its students hail from more than 43 countries, and its total research portfolio is worth more than $180 million. BUSPH is fully accredited by the Association of Schools of Public Health and ranked 10th among Public Health Graduate Schools by U.S. News & World Report.
The mission of BUSPH is “to improve the health of populations locally, nationally, and internationally, with a special focus on the disadvantaged, underserved, and vulnerable.” The school describes its values statement as follows: "Our values drive what we do and how we do it. We are deeply committed to igniting positive change in the world. We seek to create a respectful, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive community within SPH, and to promote justice, human rights, and equity within and across our local and global communities. We are bold in our pursuit of knowledge that matters, creative in our pursuit of solutions, and innovative in our education. In all we do, it is our engagement with people, communities, and institutions in the world beyond our academic walls that leads to success."
These statements guide BUSPH’s activities—including research, scholarship, education, and translation—through its principles of significance, diversity, equity, and collaboration. Faculty in six departments—Biostatistics; Community Health Sciences; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Global Health; and Health Law, Policy & Management—conduct research that informs public health policies around the world.
The current dean is Dr. Sandro Galea. Former dean Dr. Robert Meenan stepped down at the end of 2014 after serving in the role for 21 years. Upon joining BUSPH, Dean Galea described the school as a “world-class research institution that places special emphasis on real-world education and practice. BUSPH generates knowledge, transmits knowledge to students, and then translates that knowledge to all constituencies to assure conditions for people to be healthy.”
The school was established in 1976 as a program within the Department of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine with an initial class of 54 MPH students and 20 non-degree students. It was the brainchild of Dr. Douglas K. Decker, who designed its admission criteria (successful healthcare managers and practitioners), curriculum (practical, rather than theoretical), teaching approach (pairing academicians and accomplished practitioners in the field), and schedule (night classes only held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday so that working medical professionals could attend.) The first dean was Dr. Norman A. Scotch, who guided the school through the accreditation process.
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