Who We Are
The Herbert Wertheim school of Public Health and Human Longevity Science was founded in 2019 with a $25 million lead gift from the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation with a mission to create and promote healthier populations on a local, national and global scale.
At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the school commenced its fifth year with more than 80 salaried faculty with primary appointments, 25 faculty with secondary appointments (primary appointed in another UC San Diego Department/school), 200+ personnel, 175 postgraduate students and 500 undergraduate majors. The school includes activities in the public health disciplines of Behavioral Medicine, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Policy, Health Equity, Public Mental Health, and Environmental and Climate Health.
The school has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health, a Master of Public Health, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics, UC San Diego-San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health with a concentration in Health Services Research and Implementation Science and a Preventive Medicine Residency program (also in conjunction with SDSU).
The school has strong collaborative research programs facilitated by Research Centers of Excellence focused on Health Promotion and Equity, Women's Health, Tobacco Control, and Wireless and Population Health Systems, and has extensive collaborations with the School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Moores Cancer Center, the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and with other partners across the UC San Diego campus.
Annual Report
The annual report is a window to the school’s strategic acumen and a look towards its discerning future.
Vision
Creating and promoting public health innovations to advance equity, justice and wellbeing for all.
Our Mission
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health leads innovations to improve public health locally and globally.
Mission
With a commitment to equity and justice and rooted in a culture of respect, the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health will lead in innovations to improve public health locally and globally by:
- Cultivating new generations of diverse public health professionals
- Advancing scientific discovery, dissemination and implementation
- Collaborating with diverse partners to develop community-led health solutions
School Spotlight - Revive & Survive San Diego
The UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and the County of San Diego Emergency Medical Services convened a coalition of leaders from public health, public safety, business, education and community organizations to lead a countywide initiative to save lives by training 1 million San Diegans across the region in hands-only CPR.
Values
Respect, Humility, Compassion
We support our members and encourage collaboration over competition. We invest time in creating connections within the School and larger community, providing mentorship and celebrating successes. We develop structural mechanisms that promote respectful and caring behaviors. We remove barriers such as top-down thinking and competition fueled by lack of resources.
Integrity, Justice, Trust
We encourage and ensure integrity throughout the school and weave our values into our daily routines and systems.
Diversity*, Equity, and Inclusion
It is first and foremost our mission to ensure good and equitable health outcomes through the idea of prevention and solving upstream issues so that downstream problems do not present themselves in the first place. We strive to remove structural barriers to success and help everyone achieve the goals they set as members of Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health.
*Regents Policy 4400: Policy on University of California Diversity Statement