Timeline

1946

UW School of Medicine founded; includes Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Leland Powers named first Chair

1955

William Reynolds becomes Chair

1960

Thomas Grayston named Professor and Chair of the Department, which he renames Department of Preventive Medicine

1970

Department of Preventive Medicine became the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, provisionally accredited by the American Public Health Association. Thomas Grayston served as first Dean. Original departments and chairs were:
Biostatistics – Edward Perrin
Environmental Health – James McCarroll
Epidemiology and International Health – Russell Alexander
Health Services – Robert Day
Pathobiology (originally called Experimental Laboratories) – George Kenny

MEDEX and Health Services Administration and Planning (MHA degree) programs developed in Health Services

1971

Thomas Grayston named Vice President for Health Affairs of the UW; Donovan Thompson named Acting Dean of the School

1972

Robert Day appointed Dean of the School (December)

1973

SPHCM received full accreditation

Betty Gilson named Acting Chair of Health Services; William Richardson appointed Chair (September)

Donovan Thompson appointed Chair of Biostatistics (Edward Perrin went to the National Center for Health Statistics)

Donald Peterson named Acting Chair of Environmental Health

Undergraduate program in Environmental Health moved from College of Arts and Sciences to SPHCM

1974

John Wilson appointed Chair of Environmental Health

Health Policy Analysis Program established

Donald Peterson named Acting Chair of Pathobiology

1975

The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (joint with the School of Medicine) began

Collaboration between Environmental Health and State Department of Labor and Industries expanded

1976

Donald Peterson became Chair of Epidemiology

William Richardson named first full-time Associate Dean of the School

William Dowling became Acting Chair of Health Services

1977

Donald Reidel appointed Chair of Health Services

1978

SPHCM reaccredited

1979

Radiological Sciences transferred to SPHCM

1980

William Richardson served briefly as Acting Chair until Stephen Shortell named Chair of Health Services

Extended MPH Degree program established

Alumni association founded

Publication of Washington Public Health begun

1981

William Richardson served briefly as Acting Chair of Environmental Health until appointed Dean of the Graduate School. Timothy DeRouen became Acting Chair

1982

Gilbert Omenn became Chair of Environmental Health (April)

Betty Gilson named Acting Chair of Health Services

Polly Feigl named Acting Chair of Biostatistics

Robert Day appointed Director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Gilbert Omenn appointed Dean (October) and continued as Chair of Environmental Health during search for successor

1983

Sheldon Murphy appointed Chair of Environmental Health

Edward Perrin named Chair of Health Services

Norman Breslow appointed Chair of Biostatistics

1984

Noel Weiss became Chair of Epidemiology

1985

International Health Program established in Health Services

Maternal and Child Health Program enrolled first students

1989

Social and Behavioral Sciences Program established

1990

Gerald van Belle appointed Acting Chair of Environmental Health

1991

Gerald van Belle named Chair of Environmental Health

George Todaro appointed Chair of Pathobiology

1993

Thomas Fleming named Chair of Biostatistics

Thomas Koepsell became Chair of Epidemiology

1994

William Dowling appointed Chair of Health Services

1995

Patricia Wahl became Acting Chair of Pathobiology

1996

Kenneth Stuart named Chair of Pathobiology

1998

David Kalman appointed Interim Chair of Environmental Health

1997

Patricia Wahl named Acting Dean

1998

Emily White named Acting Chair of Epidemiology

1999

Patricia Wahl appointed Dean

James Gale named Acting Chair of Epidemiology

2000

David Kalman named Chair of Environmental Health

Scott Davis appointed Chair of Epidemiology

2004

Andy Stergachis appointed Interim Chair of Pathobiology

2006

Bruce Weir became Chair of Biostatistics

Fred Connell named Acting Chair of Pathobiology

Department of Global Health established (joint with Medicine); King Holmes named William S. Foege Chair of Global Health