Last Friday’s Washington Post had a very interesting article about the current popularity of global health studies among college students. 16% of US colleges now offer majors or minors in public health. That’s a pretty far cry from the rather traditional, plain-vanilla offerings that undergraduates flocked to in my day–literature, history, and, of course, the eternally popular accounting and business (though an American, at least, might wonder whether enthusiasm for these subjects may have waned a wee bit in the last few days. I was going to add some links here, but you can find a mind-boggling number of background pieces by Googling “$700 billion”). Very intriguing that interest in public health is taking hold earlier than medical or graduate school.

Faith McLellan

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