Columbia University School of Public Health - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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In August of 1939 the Institute moved from the medical school to its own quarters in the present building. On July 1, 1945, the Trustees re- named the Institute the School of Public Health. At the same time, Dr. Claude W. Munger, with financial aid from the Kellogg Foundation, organ- ized the school's first formal course in hospital administration. In 1946 the Master of Public Health degree was added to the list of customary M.S. degrees in the specialties given by the School and the Doctor of Public Health degree was initiated for physicians doing advanced work. PhD programs in parasitology and medical care administration were added later. In March 1950 the Trustees, recognizing the need for extending educa- tion in administration in hospital, prepayment medical care, industrial medicine and medical schools, approved the establishment of the Institute of Administrative Medicine. The Institute prospered, and for this reason the school's name was changed in july 1955 to the School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine. Mention must be made finally of the School's future plans. Under the direction of Dr. George Rosen and Dr. -lack Elinson, a Ph.D. program for social scientists wishing to work in the health field will soon be initiated. Tentative plans for l964include the School's taking over of two floors of the William Black Medical Research Building, now being erected at 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. Plans are to move the Institute of Nutrition Sciences and the now scattered research units into this building and to include space for laboratories, offices for graduate students doing research, and a School library for the use of both students and faculty.

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HISTUHY U17 THE SCHUUL It is the intention of this brief paper to review the essential elements of tbe scbool's development, and to present cz glimpse into its future. In 1909 and again in 1915 special university committees recommended a School of Sanitary Science and Public Health to be established separate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. These were not acted upon due to lack of funds. However, the Faculty of Medicine was not inactive during this period, and sponsored a popular series of public lectures on health matters in 1909. In 1911 P. and S. initiated its first regularly offered course in Public Health and Sanitation, which was taught by Walter Bensel to fourth year medical students. In 1918,the funds necessary toestablish the school were unexpectedly provided through a bequest in the will of Joseph R. DeLamar amounting to nearly five million dollars. His will stipulated that the funds were to be used for study and teaching of the prevention of disease and of the conservation of health by proper diet. Mr. De Lamar wished the results of such study to be disseminated through scientific journals as well as through popular magazines and lectures. Memory of this beneficence has been perpetuated through University Chairs: the DeLamar Professorship of Administrative Medicine, now held by Dr. Ray E. Trussell, and the Delsamar Professorship of Public Health Practice, held by Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe. The Institute of Public Health was founded in 1921, as an integral part of the Faculty of Medicine but a separate entity from the medical school. lt was not until 1922 that its first full-time faculty member, Dr. Haven Emerson, was appointed as Professor of Public Health Administration. In 1936 the name of the school was changed to the DeLamar Institute of Public Health, and offered twelve courses, including epidemiology, public health administration, public health engineering, and statistics.

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The Pacult , JOHN W. FERTIG, Ph.D. ' Professor of Biostatistics .iw DAVID S. SANDERS, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Clinical Professor ofPsychiatry - GEORGE ROSEN, M.D., Ph.D.,M.P.H. Professor of Public Health Education ng yn ALVIN R. JACOBSON, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sanitary Science