Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science

专业介绍

The Herbert Wertheim school of Public Health and Human Longevity Science was founded in 2019 with a $25 million lead gift from the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation with a mission to create and promote healthier populations on a local, national and global scale.

At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the school commenced its fifth year with more than 80 salaried faculty with primary appointments, 25 faculty with secondary appointments (primary appointed in another UC San Diego Department/school), 200+ personnel, 175 postgraduate students and 500 undergraduate majors. The school includes activities in the public health disciplines of Behavioral Medicine, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Policy, Health Equity, Public Mental Health, and Environmental and Climate Health.

The school has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health, a Master of Public Health, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics, UC San Diego-San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health with a concentration in Health Services Research and Implementation Science and a Preventive Medicine Residency program (also in conjunction with SDSU).

The school has strong collaborative research programs facilitated by Research Centers of Excellence focused on Health Promotion and Equity, Women’s Health, Tobacco Control, and Wireless and Population Health Systems, and has extensive collaborations with the School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Moores Cancer Center, the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and with other partners across the UC San Diego campus.