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Outreach

In the community, around the world

Local & global reach

The School of Public Health is built on the tenet that public health is global health. Some of our earliest researchers helped to pioneer this philosophy.

In the early 1960s, the University of Minnesota’s own Ancel Keys traveled to Europe, Africa and Asia to study the diets and customs of different cultures. SPH professor emeritus Henry Blackburn worked with Keys on the project, known as the Seven Countries Study.

Our global work today

Currently, our faculty members conduct research on five continents and in more than 100 countries. While challenges such as HIV prevention, pandemic planning, tobacco control, and food safety are immense, so are the opportunities.

Technological advances have paved the way, but so has a worldwide desire to collaborate on the health issues that affect us all. Never before has the school partnered so extensively with researchers and educators throughout the world.

 
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