The 91探花School of Public Health and Community Medicine held an all-school celebration event this spring to mark its rise, from fifth to fourth, in the rankings of the 33 accredited schools of public health by U.S. News & World Report, released in April.
At the celebration, each faculty and staff member received a pin with the school鈥檚 logo, a Northwest Native American design called 鈥淪oul Catcher.鈥�
鈥淲e know that our success is due to the efforts of our faculty and staff and our excellent students, and we wanted to acknowledge them,鈥� said Dean Patricia Wahl.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know that a dean influences the rankings,鈥� she said, 鈥渂ut I鈥檓 certainly pleased to see us advance during my watch.鈥�
In the rankings for public health graduate programs, the 91探花now follows Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program at the University of Michigan is fifth.