Public Health School Gives 14 Scholarships

The Graduate School of Public Health announced last Friday the award of 14 postgraduate scholarships, the first financial aids granted in the School's 41-year history.

Public Health instituted the scholarship program as a result of surveys showing an extreme lack of qualified health specialists in the United States and abroad. The 14 finalists were selected from 74 applicants.

In the United States, the School found, only 65 percent of the population is served by local health units. Only 50 percent of the counties are served by full-time health officers and but 20 percent of American industrial workers can use industrial health facilities.

Financial difficulties, which force medical school graduates and other health specialists to choose private careers, are the chief cause for the lack of trained public health personnel, the School said.