3 U's forming school of public health

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3 universities forming school of public health

By Sherry

Denver Post Staff Writer

Article Last Updated: 08/17/2007 12:35:43 AM MDT

Colorado Springs -The state's three public universities are creating a

joint school of public health that will eventually double the number

of students studying the specialty in the state, officials announced

Thursday.

The unusual joint effort by the University of Colorado, Colorado State

University and the University of Northern Colorado will have students

on all three campuses studying for their master's or doctorates in

public health.

Students enrolled in the Colorado School of Public Health Initiative

can take classes at any campus. CU and UNC already had public-health

programs; the new school just brings them under one program, said Dr.

Hamman, the school's director.

The school's opening comes at a time when the field desperately needs

more specialists in public health, including people specialized to

study SARS - severe acute respiratory syndrome - and the West Nile

virus, Hamman said.

More than half the people nationally working in public health don't

have specific training, he said. And many of those trained, he said,

are nearing retirement.

" We still don't understand the best way to control West Nile or SARS, "

he said. " We need people studying this. "

The school will have classes in all aspects of public health but will

focus on some Western-specific problems, such as American Indian

health, officials said.

The school eventually will grow to about 500 students spread across

the three campuses. Kay Norton, president of UNC, said students will

be studying nutrition and gerontology as well as other pertinent

topics to the 21st century.

This program " is about enhancing lives, " Norton said.

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This does not seem to have interested anyone, but I am delighted to

see any expansion in a school of public health and hope that more such

schools will be founded. I have seen programs founded in defense

against attacks by biological & chemical agents, despite the fact that

if drugs are decriminalized, terrorists will be lucky to possess zip

guns, but there are still many states in the US that lack a school of

public health.

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> 3 universities forming school of public health

> By Sherry

> Denver Post Staff Writer

> Article Last Updated: 08/17/2007 12:35:43 AM MDT

> Colorado Springs -The state's three public universities are creating

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I just did a little searching and was happy to discover that the University of California (my home state) has two schools of public health, one at UCLA and the other at UC Berkeley. SF State University (part of the CA State Univ system, not UC) also offers a master's degree in public health. All of our college level nursing schools have a public health component as well.Lee <jackalope_lepus@...> wrote: This does not seem to have interested anyone, but I am delighted tosee any expansion in a school of

public health and hope that more suchschools will be founded. I have seen programs founded in defenseagainst attacks by biological & chemical agents, despite the fact thatif drugs are decriminalized, terrorists will be lucky to possess zipguns, but there are still many states in the US that lack a school ofpublic health.>> 3 universities forming school of public health> By Sherry> Denver Post Staff Writer> Article Last Updated: 08/17/2007 12:35:43 AM MDT> Colorado Springs -The state's three public universities are creating . Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

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And all are fine public universities. But a look at public health

schools across the USA

www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=200

shows that many States lack such schools, even at a private

university. Since WHO now says that we can expect one new disease to

emerge a year

Flu/message/7570

we must have fully staffed public health departments to try to track

down these diseases as they develop. I wonder if the USA is producing

enough public health professionals to meet its own needs, or is it

importing some from other nations?

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> I just did a little searching and was happy to discover that the

University of California (my home state) has two schools of public

health, one at UCLA and the other at UC Berkeley. SF State University

(part of the CA State Univ system, not UC) also offers a master's

degree in public health. All of our college level nursing schools

have a public health component as well.

[Guest guest]

No doubt some of our public health professionals are from other countries, but I'm not so sure that the US is "importing" them. What I am sure of is that there's never enough money to cover the costs of appropriate public health activities. Our own local Dept. of Health has to scramble for money every year just to maintain things as they are, never mind that tuberculosis is endemic here ... and then there's HIV/AIDS.Lee <jackalope_lepus@...> wrote: And all are fine public universities. But a look at public

healthschools across the USA www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=200shows that many States lack such schools, even at a privateuniversity. Since WHO now says that we can expect one new disease toemerge a yearFlu/message/7570we must have fully staffed public health departments to try to trackdown these diseases as they develop. I wonder if the USA is producingenough public health professionals to meet its own needs, or is it importing some from other nations?>> I just did a little searching and was happy to discover that theUniversity of California (my home state) has two schools of publichealth, one at

UCLA and the other at UC Berkeley. SF State University(part of the CA State Univ system, not UC) also offers a master'sdegree in public health. All of our college level nursing schoolshave a public health component as well. . Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

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No, there is never enough money. But we can hope that the news media

will begin to cover this problem as well as the problem of avian flu

so that we will be prepared for the next epidemic or pandemic. Since

WHO expects one new disease a year to threaten us, there will be

diseases that the media might want to cover.

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> No doubt some of our public health professionals are from other

countries, but I'm not so sure that the US is " importing " them. What

I am sure of is that there's never enough money to cover the costs of

appropriate public health activities. Our own local Dept. of Health

has to scramble for money every year just to maintain things as they

are, never mind that tuberculosis is endemic here ... and then there's

HIV/AIDS.