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Colorado to open the state's first public health school

NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Sept. 10, 2007

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Three Colorado universities have joined forces to open the Colorado School of Public Health, the first of its type in the state. The first class is slated to start in 2008.

The school will oversee residencies for medical graduates in occupational health and preventive medicine.

Among other things, it will offer master of public health degrees in biostatistics; community behavioral health; environmental and occupational health; epidemiology; and health systems management and policy.

"The Colorado School of Public Health will fill a significant regional void and no doubt will play a vital role in the national public health arena," said M. Roy Wilson, MD, chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

Administrative offices will be at the University of Colorado Denver campus, with classes held in Denver and at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

The University of Colorado schools raised $4 million in grants and gifts to develop the new school. Funding for the $15 million annual operating budget will come from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center's preventive medicine program, which will become part of the public health school.

Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/09/10/prbf0910.htm.

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