In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day. The World Health Day is held to mark WHO's founding, and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year.
The WHO organizes international, regional and local events on the Day related to a particular theme. World Health Day is acknowledged by various governments and non-governmental organizations with interests in public health issues, who also
organize activities and highlight their support in media reports, such as the Global Health Council.
World Health Day is one of eight official global health campaigns marked by WHO, along with World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World AIDS Day, World Blood Donor Day, and World Hepatitis Day.
In Tanzania, the School of Public Health and Social Sciences (SPHSS) is one of five schools that make up Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS); the others being medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing. The school
was created through the amalgamation of the former Institute of Public Health, the Institute of Developmental Studies and the institute of Primary Health Care and Continuing Education in accordance with the collective promotion of these
departments to university status. The Institute of Public Health however dates back to July 1991 when it was established after the thenfaculty of medicine
was upgraded into a college.
Its vision is to become a centre of excellence in the field of public health both at home in Tanzania, East Africa, and beyond, whereas its mission is to improve the health of people in Tanzania through teaching, research, consultancy and public health services using public health principles. All these elements also aim at addressing the core functions of
the university: training of human resources for health in both formal and continuing education as well as using
professional development approaches; conducting research relevant to solving community health problems; and providing technical assistance in various public health disciplines to partners, collaborators, ministries and implementers of
public health interventions. The School has a total of 47 members of staff 24 of these having acquired PhDs from various re-known Universities across the world thus bringing home a wealth of skills, experience and competences to share with
stakeholders especially students. The School has a wealth of experience in conducting research and community service activities within Tanzania and beyond and collaborates with a number of partner Universities, Governments, Research Institutions and not least the communities we serve.
The school members of academic staff teach across the University in cross cutting subjects, and the School is host to
one undergraduate and seven postgraduate programmes with a total of 71 undergraduate and 145 postgraduate students.
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