Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
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Tulane University names school in honor of Celia Scott Weatherhead’s record-breaking support
Tulane University announces The Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Tulane University announced today that it is naming its School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in honor of alumna Celia Scott Weatherhead in recognition of her landmark total lifetime giving of more than $160 million in support of the university. Weatherhead’s commitment – the largest in Tulane’s history – continues her legacy of providing funding to attract world-leading faculty researchers to Tulane and ensuring that top students from all backgrounds can attend the university.
Weatherhead’s support includes a new gift that will transform the university’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with the goal of establishing it as the premier school of its kind in the United States and one of the top such schools in the world.
The Weatherhead School by the Numbers
We were the first school of public health in the country (est. 1912)
In the top 10% of Public Health Schools & Programs in the US
of graduates working or continuing education within a year of graduating
Students hail from 49 US states & territories
Our students are from 21 different countries
Average age of our students
