Table 1. US Accredited Public Health Schools Founded before 1970 with Academic Departments Devoted to Infectious and Tropical Diseases.

Schools (Alphabetical Order)	Year Founded	Academic Department or Program
Harvard School of Public Health	1922	Immunology and Infection
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	1916	Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine	1912	Tropical Medicine
University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health	1943	Infectious Diseases
University of Michigan School of Public Health	1941	Global and International Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health	1936	Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health	1948	Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
University of Texas School of Public Health	1969	Biomedical Lab Sciences
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine	1970	Pathobiology
Yale School of Public Health	1915	Epidemiology of Microbial Disease

Of the 15 accredited US public health schools, 11 host departments in this area.