School of Public Health

1987 Calendar, p. 22
Following a review of public and tropical health teaching and research throughout Australia, the Federal Government decided to close the School of Public health and Tropical Medicine on 31 March 1987. On 1 April 1987 a Department of Public health was established within the Faculty of Medicine, funded by the Department of Community Services and Health until at least 1993.

Senate Minutes 6 February 1995
Senate noted that the Department of Public Health and the Department of Community Medicine have been amalgamated, with the new department named the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Senate Resolution 182/02 6 May 2002
Senate noted the report that the Vice-Chancellor had approved the renaming of the School of Population Health and Health Services Research in the Faculty of
Medicine as the School of Public Health.

Faculty of Health and Medicine News (7 March 2018)
From April 2018 the School of Public Health will no longer be a school within Sydney Medical School but it will become a school within the new Faculty of Medicine and Health.