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About SMS
In 1968 the Columbia University School of Public Health became the first institution in the country to offer a graduate degree in the social sciences with a focus on health. What began as a collaborative research project in 1956 involving a physician, an epidemiologist, and a sociologist, evolved over a decade’s time into a formal doctoral program.
Dr. Jack Elinson, Prof Emeritus
Inaugural Department head honored as part of 40th anniversary celebration.
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