Dean's Message
 The eight-year Knowledge for the World campaign has transformed the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. With our donors’ support, we have endowed three department chairs, seven professorships, and 49 scholarships and fellowships, and we have remade our School’s campus by adding classroom, laboratory, office and common space. Our students and, indeed, the world will reap benefits from these gifts for years to come. More than 5,800 people and 750 foundations and corporations contributed almost $583 million to advance the Bloomberg School’s mission. (This amount does not include grants from federal agencies such as NIH, but it does include more than $200 million in grants to faculty from foundations for specific research projects.) When this campaign began on July 1, 2000, under my predecessor, Alfred Sommer, many thought the half-billion dollar goal was beyond the reach of a school of public health. Fortunately, our School’s mission resonated with many generous individuals and foundations. In the campaign’s first five years, Al established a strong base of donors that helped me lead the campaign’s successful last three years. By the end of 2008, we not only achieved our goal but exceeded it by more than 16 percent.
Though we are delighted with the campaign’s results, ultimately we know the point is not the money but what we can accomplish with it. We will use these gifts to fulfill our mission to protect health and save lives. Your contributions are supporting our efforts to bring the top researchers in the world to Baltimore, to nurture young faculty with seed grants that allow them to explore groundbreaking solutions, to initiate lifesaving programs here and abroad, and to attract the very best students who, with our help, will become tomorrow’s leaders in global health. To show you how the campaign is shaping our future, the stories in this publication follow five threads—Discovery, Leadership, Impact, Commitment and Vision—that make up the fabric of our School. These priorities would be quite familiar to our first dean, William Henry Welch, who envisioned a school of public health that would embody active scientific investigation, education and practice-based public health. Though we are very much a 21st-century school that remains on the forefront of science, education and practice, his vision still inspires us today. Since 1916, we here at the world’s oldest, largest and most accomplished school of public health have made great contributions to global health. And thanks to your generosity and vision, we will continue our commitment to saving lives—millions at a time. Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH
Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | |
