The issue focused on the schools of medicine and public health sciences, a part of health care providing medical education and teaching that are historically thought of as being linked to medicine and science. It will be formally announced by the Health and Human Services department this week.


As a public health and medical education specialist who studies the work of those in public health sciences, and as an associate professor in the University of Arizona College of Public Health, I have not been surprised by this situation. I have studied the concept of