Our Community Partners
We work closely with organizaitons that address critical public heatlh needs. Click on the image to play.
Our Global Reach
Keys
Our School 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’s own Ancel Keys traveled to Europe, Africa, and Asia to systematically 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, one of the first global research initiatives to link lifestyle and diet to health.
Our Work Today
Today the work of our faculty is conducted 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.
Building out global health portfolio
SPH dean John R. Finnegan writes in the April 2011 issue of Minnesota Physician about how "we are reaffirming our own land-grant mission around the world through research, learning, and service."
Contact Information
Dean's Office
420 Delaware St. S.E.
Room A-302 Mayo Memorial Building
Hours: M-F, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Phone: 612-624-6669
E-mail: sphdo@umn.edu