UCI Public Health Program becomes new school

Upon receiving approval today by the UC Board of Regents, UCI has transitioned its highly rated Program in Public Health to become the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health. This is the first school of public health in Orange County and the fourth within the 10-campus UC system.

Several AirUCI faculty will be moving from the Program in Public Health to the new Wen School of Population & Public Health, department of Environmental and Occupational Health: Andrea de Vizcaya Ruiz, Michael Kleinman, Ulrike Luderer, and Jun Wu as well as one-time AirUCI faculty Robert Phalen.  Building on the existing foundations of public health sciences, community engagement, and advancing health equity, the new school educates, conducts research, and partners with regional and national communities and organizations to address the wide range of public health problems facing the world.  Read the article