History
The Public Health College was established following an agreement signed by the acting Ethiopian minister of public health, Marsae Hazan Wolde Qiros, and the government of the United States April 1954. The Ethiopian government signed a similar agreement with the World Health Organization September of that year. These agreements specified that the College would consist of four parts: a training school, a hospital, and awraja and municipal health departments. As a result, the College played a significant role in improving public health in Gondar over the next few years.
The training school's mission was to supply middle-level health professionals who would man a network of health centers distributed across the country. Each center would be staffed by a health officer, a community nurse, a sanitarian and a laboratory technician, and was expected to care for about 50,000. The first ones were built around Gondar, but as the Public Health College came to be responsible for the public health of Begemder Province, they were forced to build new centers ever further away.
One of the results of signing a new treaty between the United States and Ethiopia in June 1960 was the upgrade of the Public Health College to full college status However, when Haile Selassie University (since renamed Addis Ababa University) became a chartered institution, it received the responsibility for all higher education in the country, and the Public Health College was made a part of the University. Its innovative program based on field work, and its work to improve public health in Gondar and Begemder province were replaced by an emphasis on academic coursework which led to a Bachelor of Science in Public Health.
While remaining part of Addis Ababa University, Gondar College was reorganized with the help of Karl Marx University in East Germany (now known as Leipzig University) in 1978; in 1992, the College regained its autonomy. The subsequent creation of a Faculty of Management Science and Economics, a Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and a Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences enabled the college to grow into University College in 2003; the following year the institution was renamed the University of Gondar.
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