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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school at Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was named after Hong Kong entrepreneur Chan Tseng-hsi in 2014 following a US$350 million donation, the largest in Harvard's history at the time.

The school grew out of the Harvard–MIT School for Health Officers, the country's first graduate training program in population health, which was founded in 1913 and became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.

Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health traces its origins to the Harvard–MIT School for Health Officers, which was founded in 1913. Harvard calls it "the nation's first graduate training program in public health." In 1922, the School for Health Officers became the Harvard School of Public Health.

The school was part of Harvard Medical School until 1946, when it became a fully autonomous institution with its own dedicated public health and medical faculty.

The Harvard School of Public Health was renamed the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014 in honor of a US$350 million donation, the largest in Harvard's history at the time, from the Morningside Foundation, run by Harvard School of Public Health alumnus Gerald Chan (Harvard SM '75, SD '79) and Ronnie Chan, both of whom were sons of Chan Tseng-hsi (T.H. Chan).

In 2023 and 2024, the school partnered with the National Healthcare Security Administration to train members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). The partnership led to U.S. Congressional scrutiny in May 2025, as XPCC is sanctioned for human rights abuses under the Global Magnitsky Act.

The Master of Public Health program offers ten fields of study:

Degree programs offered by specific departments:

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