The Yale School of Public Health
The Yale School of Public Health, founded in 1916 and one of the oldest in the country, has approximately 50 full-time teaching and research faculty in all of the major disciplines relevant to public health. The school has six divisions: Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, both infectious and chronic diseases; Health Policy and Administration; Global Health; and Microbial Diseases. Behavioral sciences are represented in several of these divisions, especially Chronic Disease Epidemiology (sociology, psychology), Health Policy and Administration (Political Science, Social Marketing, Health Economics), and Global Health (International Health Policy in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Behavior Change). Academic programs are offered in the following areas: