| 1886 | Charles Hewitt, professor at the University of Minnesota, recommended establishing a school of public health |
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| 1944 | Formal beginning of the School of Public Health [SPH]. Gaylord Anderson is appointed head of the School, but is on leave to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Ruth Boynton serves as interim head until the end of the war |
| 1946 | SPH accredited by the American Public Health Association. The Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene joins the SPH. Programs in Hospital Administration and Veterinary Public Health are added to SPH |
| 1947 | SPH receives a U.S. Public Health Service training grant for nurses in mental hygiene. Minnesota Cardiovascular Survey is initiated by Ancel Keys |
| 1948 | SPH becomes the first program in the United States to grant a master’s degree in hospital administration (M.H.A.) |
| 1950s | SPH is recognized for its research in global epidemiology, sanitary biology, cardiovascular health, epidemiology, public health engineering, biostatistics, environmental sanitation, and public health nursing |
| 1950 | Epidemiology is formally recognized as a division within the School. Ground breaking for the Mayo Memorial Building |
| 1954 | SPH moves into the new Mayo Memorial Building; Maternal and Child Health is established as a full-time unit of the School |
| 1957 | Henry Taylor begins the U.S. Railway Study |
| 1958 | SPH launches the nation’s first Ph.D. program in epidemiology; Ancel Keys and colleagues begin the Seven Countries Study |
| 1960s (early) | The Biocomputing Center is established |
| 1960 | SPH launches a Ph.D. program in hospital administration |
| 1961 | Training program for public health nurse educators begins |
| 1963 | National Diet-Heart Study begins |
| 1964 | Enrollment reaches 235 (from 98 in 1954); Public Health Nursing drops its undergraduate program to focus on graduate education; SPH establishes the nation’s first hospital engineering program |
| 1965 | Public Health Nutrition program begins |
| 1968 | Dental Public Health program established |
| 1970 | The College of Medical Sciences is disbanded and SPH becomes part of the Health Sciences. Following Gaylord Anderson’s retirement, Lee D. Stauffer is appointed first dean of SPH |
| 1972 | Public Health Nursing establishes the Adult Nurse Practitioner program |
| 1975 | Interdisciplinary Studies Program begins |
| 1977 | Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety established |
| 1980 | Minnesota Heart Health Program begins |
| 1981 | Center for the Study of Human and Animal Relationships (CENSHARE) established; SPH Alumni Society is established |
| 1982 | Following Lee Stauffer’s retirement as dean, Edith D. Leyasmeyer is appointed acting dean |
| 1983 | The Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health merge under the leadership of director Henry Blackburn |
| 1985 | Robert L. Kane is named dean |
| 1986 | The School is reorganized to provide more time for faculty scholarship and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration |
| 1990 | The Division of Biostatistics begins its work as a statistical center for the Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) |
| 1991 | Stephen C. Joseph appointed dean |
| 1992 | SPH Career Center opens |
| 1994 | The Center for Environment and Health Policy is established; Dean Joseph resigns; Edith D. Leyasmeyer becomes interim dean |