University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
| UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health | |
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| Former names | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Public Health |
| Established | 1936 |
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Graduate school School of Public Health |
| Parent institution | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United StatesCoordinates: 35°54′21″N 79°03′15″W / 35.9058°N 79.0541°W |
| Dean | Barbara Rimer |
| Academic staff | 547 |
| Students | 1,545 |
| Doctoral students | 535 |
| Alumni | 10,045 |
| Website | sph |
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, formerly known as The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Public Health, holds a unique position among the top-tiered public health schools in the United States. As part of a highly regarded state university system, the Gillings School is rooted in the strengths and needs of North Carolina’s mostly rural communities, yet has significant global reach and impact.
Through research and programs based around the world, and both residential and online training of international students as future public health leaders, the Gillings School has focused on the interconnections of global and local health. Discovering local solutions and applying them globally – and vice versa – is at the heart of the School’s research, teaching and service. Accelerating those solutions – transforming them more quickly from the academy to the community – is central to the School’s mission.
The UNC Gillings School has been ranked the top public school of public health by U.S. News & World Report since the magazine began its evaluations. The School has remained consistently in the top three of all public health schools. Most recently, the 2016 edition of U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings listed the school as tied at second place overall, after the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and tied with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Several of the school's departments and programs have been recognized as among the best in the country.
The Gillings School of Global Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health and offers undergraduate and graduate programs both in traditional classrooms on the Chapel Hill campus and online. It is named for donors Joan Gillings and Dennis Gillings, a former UNC professor and the founder of Quintiles.
The UNC Division of Public Health was organized in 1936 within the UNC School of Medicine. Separate status as a school of public health was granted in 1939, making the School the first school of public health established within a state university. The school awarded its first graduate degrees in 1940.
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