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Allston

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Yuanli Liu
Heather Nelson
Stephen Buka
Barbara Burleigh
Eric Rimm
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The planned relocation of the Harvard School of Public Health to a new campus in Allston a decade from now presents us with incredible opportunities--and an urgent necessity--for thinking about the future of public health. Announced formally in October 2003, the relocation opens doors to unprecedented levels of collaboration among life-science, technology, and social-science scholars across the University. It also poses challenges, one of which will be to maintain our long and strong ties to Harvard's affiliated teaching hospitals.

Two faculty committees at the School are absorbed by a number of critical issues raised by the Allston campus: What will public health look like 10 to 20 years from now? What problems and issues will we need to address, and how can we best organize our School to deal with them? How will planning for Allston enable us to attain our goals for multidisciplinary collaboration and teaching? How will the redrawing of our campus permit us to reshape our graduate programs? What new synergies within the School and University can be created to inform our efforts in public health? How can we inspire others within the University to join us in thinking about issues such as global health and health systems? And how do we maintain, throughout all this change, our deep commitment to collaborating with our colleagues at the hospitals at the frontiers of clinical and epidemiologic research?

These are big-time challenges to our School and the Dean--and we relish them. It is my hope that, with the help of the School's many committed friends and supporters, we can take advantage of this unique opportunity to redefine public health for our University and, in so doing, contribute more broadly to our nation and the world.

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Photo: Harvard Planning and Allston Initiative