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Carrying on a tradition of more than eighty years, the Medical Center continues to be deeply involved in community and public health activities.


When professional education in public health was separated from the Medical School in 1921, first to the Graduate School and then to the separate School of Public Health, close ties to the Medical School were maintained, and over the years the faculty of the School of Public Health have continued to provide instruction in public health for medical students.


Other forms of collaboration included use of the statistical resources of the School of Public Health, through formal course offerings in biostatistics as well as through consultation. This has been aided by a federally sponsored grant to develop biomedical computing throughout the University.


Particular note should be taken of the collaborative research in the Center for Research on Diseases of the Heart and Circulation, and Related Disorders, and in the Institute of Environmental and Industrial Health. The former was started by Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases in the Medical School.


The Center has drawn heavily on the expertise in the departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Human Genetics for its progress in identifying precursors in heart disease.


The Institute of Environmental and Industrial Health, established originally through a generous grant from the General Motors Corporation, carries out research in the field of occupational diseases and the effect of the environment on individual and community health.


These two larger centers are supplemented by many individual projects involving Medical School and School of Public Health collaboration.


Formerly the School of Public Health had responsibility for the teaching of public health to undergraduate nurses in the School of Nursing. Just prior to the last decade the School of Nursing took over fundamental responsibility for the nursing part of this instruction with the School of Public Health, maintaining responsibility for the medical and professional input of this teaching program.


Fred J. Hodges


The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey Supplement, Page 211

History of the University of Michigan

School of Medicine

Joint Activities with the School of Public Heath

1940 - 1970