School of Public Health (SPH) was founded in 2012, where Public Health researchers, academics, and graduates are expected to play a vital role in shaping the future of healthcare in Pakistan. SPH’s academic activities involve not only the essential public health disciplines of biostatistics and epidemiology but also includes many others, such as social and behavioral sciences, health policy and management, and nutritional sciences [an area underserved within Pakistan], where SPH is a pioneering School to offer such a program, with qualified faculty. Public health in Pakistan is a need for the country where issues related to social and behavioral sciences, essential nutrition, policy issues, human resource management of healthcare professionals, and health communication have been highly neglected

Considering the high prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases in our community, it was imperative to develop the human resource in the country, which is well trained to tackle public health challenges. Therefore, in the present scenario of emerging health problems in our country and keeping in mind the need for a high-class training institute, the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has taken this initiative and established the first public sector institute of Public Health in the province of Sindh, which deals with all these public health challenges by training the human resource required for Pakistan to address these challenges and cater to the healthcare needs of our population.