Origins (Date/institution)

In 1765, Drs. John Morgan and William Shippen, Jr., founded the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia, the first medical school in North America

1881 at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

1936 Gift from Lucius Littauer to create Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard. Later evolves into John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1970s

1916 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Harvard Business School (1908) was first to require a university degree for entry

In the 19th century, the U.S. medical education was nonstandard and frequently inadequate, being administered through 1 of 3 basic systems: an apprenticeship system, proprietary schools, university-based education

Public management program at the University of Maine in 1945

Late 1950s establishment of Maxwell School at Syracuse University

Influential reports

“Higher Education for Business” by Gordon and Howell (1959, funded by Ford)

Ward Stewart report of 1961

Institute of Medicine report on “The Future of Public Health” from 1988