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The University of Michigan School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Michigan. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, UM SPH is one of the oldest schools of public health in the country and is also considered one of the top schools focusing on health in the United States. Founded in 1941, the School of Public Health grew out of the University of Michigan's degree programs in public health, some of which date back to the 19th century.

According to U.S. News & World Report's report on graduate programs, the University of Michigan School of Public Health was ranked as the #4 School of Public Health in the country and also had the #1 Healthcare Management program in the country in 2011.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Notable faculty

Thomas Francis Jr., mentor of Jonas Salk; ran field trials of oral polio vaccine that deemed it safe and effective
Rebecca Hasson, kinesiologist
Sharon Kardia is the Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology
Neal Krause, health behavior and health education expert
Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine

Notable alumni

Larry Brilliant, physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author and the former director of Google's philanthropic arm Google.org
Julio Frenk, former Minister of Health in Mexico; former dean of Harvard School of Public Health
David Michael Green, MacArthur Foundation Fellow
Mary Hawn, chair of surgery at Stanford University and member of the National Academy of Medicine
Albert H. Wheeler, first African-American Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician who was a key whistleblower revealing the Flint Water Crisis which exposed children to dangerous levels of lead in Flint, Michigan.