Public Health Academic Center
In its short history, the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University has carved out a national and international reputation for advancing public health education. The school’s students, alumni, and faculty alike have been recognized for their efforts to improve the health of communities worldwide through their work and research.
The time has come to build a new on-campus home to match the School’s prominence and help SPHHS fully realize its leadership potential as the only school of public health in the nation’s capital.
Planning is underway for the construction of a Public Health Academic Center, a new, seven-story facility that will serve as a hub of ideas, innovation, and research around public health’s most pressing issues. In addition to accommodating SPHHS’s growing number of faculty and students, the facility will also fill a much-needed role in the region by providing a state-of-the-art, media-friendly center for conferences, symposia, roundtables, and other gatherings on public health issues.
Most importantly, the facility will support the school’s vision to advance the health of our local, national, and global communities — even as it serves as the headquarters for public health in our nation’s capital.
For more information about this new initiative, contact Noel Salinger at nosalinger@gwu.edu or 202-994-3150.
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