Dear Friends, I’m closing in on my first full year here at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and, looking through the pages of this magazine, I’m pleased with the many things we have accomplished – so far. We’ve launched an online program, held our first Public Health Film Festival, rebranded the school, and gone through a thoughtful…
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Health Policy and Management: Building on the past to realize the future
IT WAS 1967. Just the year before, more than 23 million elderly and impoverished Americans had enrolled in the newly enacted Medicare and Medicaid programs, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation continued towards its goal of professionalizing the management of hospitals. In that year, Tulane was one of only three universities awarded a Kellogg grant to establish a program in health…
Keep Reading Health Policy and Management: Building on the past to realize the futureTulane SPHTM Welcomes a New Dean
In July the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine welcomed Thomas LaVeist as the 15th dean of the school. LaVeist was also named the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, the university’s first endowed presidential chair created to support the recruitment of exceptional, internationally recognized scholars whose work transcends and bridges traditional academic disciplines. “Thomas LaVeist is…
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