Interim Placements

West Virginia University, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center administration, faculty, staff and students comment on the move from a Department of Community Medicine, to the emerging School of Public Health (publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu). On January 19, 2011, the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center’s Chancellor, Christopher Colenda, MD, MPH, announced that West Virginia University will establish a new School of Public Health. Aided by support from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, these plans are now well established. Five academic departments have formed to lead the pre-accreditation phase of development for the new School. On June 23, 2011, five interim department chairs and four planning committees, including about 50 faculty representatives from across the university, began to work on curriculum and organizational reform on the planning path to School status. An organizational chart can be seen here. The emerging School is building upon a strong foundation, the existing Department of Community Medicine and its allies. There is already a CEPH-accredited program with over 100 MPH students and more than 20 PhD students. Our students have achieved success in professional placements. There is a dynamic interdisciplinary research enterprise. The mission has always been to provide primary prevention, intervention, and public health research to West Virginia communities and beyond. Now, the scale and scope of …

Rhode Island, one of 16 state finalists in Phase 1 of Race to the Top, made a presentation on its application to peer reviewers on March 16-17, 2010.

Kentucky, one of 16 state finalists in Phase 1 of Race to the Top, made a presentation on its application to peer reviewers on March 16-17, 2010.