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Um, so, to kick off orientation, uh Doctor John Finnegan, the Dean of the School of Public
Health here at the University of Minnesota, I'd like to introduce him.
So Dean Finnegan holds both an MA and a PhD in Mass Communications that he earned here
at the University of Minnesota.
He began his public health career in 1980, following a first career path as a journalist
during the 1970's.
As a doctoral student, media professional, and later as a public health faculty, he was a member of
the pioneering
research team here at the University of Minnesota that developed the Minnesota Heart Health
Program.
Based on this initiative, Dean Finnegan launched a career specializing in the role of communication
in mass media, and leveraging change in health knowledge, behavior, and public policy, in
the context of community campaigns to improve public health.
Today, Dean Finnegan serves on the Board of Health Ease Care System, Health Partners Research
in Education Institute, and the Backyard Initiative Community Adviser Board.
He also serves as Board Chair for Children's Heart Link, and past board chair of the International
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.
So please help me welcome uh, Dean Finnegan.
Okay, so the first thing I have to do, selfie!
Okay, here we go *laughter from the crowd*.
Okay, here, alright that's good, that's good, that's good, okay I got you all, fabulous!
Well good morning everybody.
*"Good Morning" from the crowd*.
Thank you guys so much for being here today.
It is one of the two best days every year for me, from the standpoint of what we do
here at the University of Minnesota, and this one, and what's the other one?
Commencement!
Absolutely right.
So I'm delighted to welcome all of you here, and also to get a sense of how many of you
are from Minnesota, not from Minnesota, or from international, other countries, and all
I can say is that to begin with, I want to compliment you on your extraordinary judgement
in coming here to the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
You have made a terrific choice, even if I do say so myself.
You are at one of the premier institutions of public health in the nation, and we do
pride ourselves on a rich history of community ties, as well as our rich history of global
health as well.
I will also tell you a little bit more on that in a minute but for those of you who
are not from Minnesota, I think you will find living here in the twin Cities Metropolitan
area and in the state in general, it's a very thriving, diverse community and I think you
are going to find that there is something for everyone here, and I promise you that
will be the case even in January and February.
Okay?
So keep that in mind.
You are going to hear from a number of people about the School of Public Health today, and
all of us that are gonna present to you share a very firm commitment in making your educational
experience the very best that it can be, and you are going to be taught by faculty members
who have national and international reputations, they are leaders in their field and worldwide,
and you are going to find that our classrooms and our libraries are fully equipped with
very fine technology that will aid you in your learning.
And, you also have already met a very dedicated staff, and that staff in- in particular is
um, I think just one of the best in the University.
The concern that they have for you, the quality of their support for you is going to be very
important to create this best learning experience that we can.
Um, the best part about them is that you can approach them and they will actually answer
your questions.
So please do not hesitate if there's something you're not sure of, you don't know about,
there are no stupid questions.
We might give you stupid answers, but there are no stupid questions, so just keep that
in mind.
So, one point that I do want to make uh, to you about your relationship here to the school,
and that is that we want this to be a lifelong relationship.
We know that you are here for a brief period of time, a few years, fewer years if you are
in the Master's program, longer years if you are in a Doctoral program, but it of course
started when you began to consider Minnesota, and we hope that it will end long, long down
the line.
We would like you to think of us as a lifelong partner in your continued education and learning.
So, that's very important for us and you are going to hear also from some alums as we go
along.
So I do want to talk to you a bit today about a bunch of different subjects, I am going
to kind of bounce around a little bit, but just to give you a very broad thirty thousand
foot orientation to the school, to the field of public health, and various and sundry things
that come into my mind.
Well, public health, it is big picture, it deals with big challenges, and it deals with
big solutions.
And as you probably know, we are part of an academic health center, we've got medicine,
nursing, pharmacy, vet med, dentistry, allied health professions, and public health.
And there is a tremendous resource here in all things health, how do we differ from medicine?
Well, mostly our focus is on that big picture, it is on the solutions to grand challenge
problems, and you are going to hear more about that uh, from a speaker that will follow me
very shortly.
So when we talk about public health we really say that our focus is about populations and
communities, it's about the environment, many environments, human- made, and nature- made.
And it is also about systems, above all, systems, whether those are human made or nature made.
And it's about a whole variety of methods and tools that we use to understand the world
around us when we think about prevention and when we think about promoting health and wellness.
So, we often will talk about ourselves as a research to action field or set of fields.
We talk about discovery, and discovery will lead us to applications, better practice,
public policy, outcomes of various kinds, and all of those together end up creating
twenty first century public health impact.
So, today public health is collaborative, it is trans disciplinary, we need everybody
working on challenges in public health.
We need design, and architecture, and engineering, everybody has a role in public health.
It's inter professional, as we mentioned, all those other professions, every profession,
even law, business, all of these professions, all of us have an obligation to deal with
the common good of public health.
We cross sectors, it is not about government alone, it's about public, about private, it's
about NGO's, it's about every sector working to solve and address the challenges of our
time.
And if you've been looking at the newspaper, television recently, you know exactly what
we're talking about.
It's also global.
Everything that happens in the smallest village in Africa needs to be of concern to the smallest
village in Minnesota.
As you will hear from our next speaker, there are our pathogens and there are our emerging
infectious diseases we never dreamt fifty years ago, that we would ever see in Minnesota.
But the world is a different place than it was fifty years ago, in the twentieth century
and certainly different from the nineteenth century.
Okay, now, those of you that are not from Minnesota, that might be from Minnesota, I
want to tell you a little bit about the state, kind of introduce you to it a little bit.
The first animal life in this neck of the woods, happened here about five hundred million,
half a billion, years ago, we were under water here, deeper than Houston I can tell you.
And that shallow sea gave rise to some of the very first life.
And if you have a chance sometime and you happen to be looking around the banks of the
Mississippi River, you may find traces of that life, it is in the form of fossils, shells,
coral, bracchiopods, all of those wonderful things.
Those were the first residents of Minnesota.
This land that we are on was land that humans have walked on for between twelve thousand
and fifteen thousand years.
The ancestors of today's American Indian tribal communities came here at about the time the
last glaciers were melting, and moving northward that was called the Wisconsin glacier, at
that time.
Um, in our time, it wasn't called back then.
Um, uh, and those folks that came here, came over that bear and sea bridge, came down this
way and into this area that we now know as Minnesota, right at the end of the last Ice
Age, and they were hunter- gatherers.
They were um, moving around, hunting the game that existed at that time.
Minn-e-so-ta, comes from the Dakota language, and the land that this university is on was
home to the Dakota for millennia.
And that language gave us the name Minni,sota, makoche, I apologize to those of you that
know Dakota, my pronunciation is not exactly perfect.
But when you translate that literally, it comes out, "the land where the waters are
so clear, they reflect the clouds".
Now sota, in Dakota has blue to it, so once upon a time somebody created a beer in Minnesota,
and they said Minnesota was "the land of sky blue waters".
Well that's actually not a bad translation, I admit it is more of an advertising slogan.
So this is the map of Minnesota, and I have some interesting facts for you.
Minnesota has about five point five million people as of 2016, that's a relatively small
population given the state's we have, but that's an enormous land mass.
In the metro, the Minneapolis- Saint Paul area it is about 3.28 million, which is 59%
of the total population, and the state itself is about eighty seven thousand square miles,
or, if you prefer, 225,181 square kilometers.
We are the twelfth largest of the fifty United States, as a nation, or as a state, we are
as large as the nations of Laos, Uganda, or Romania.
And believe it or not, within the state boundaries, you could fit Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia,
and Switzerland, if you crushed them all together, the residents wouldn't like that, but if you
did that, they would all fit within the boundaries of the state of Minnesota.
So, we have, you've heard Minnesota called "the Land of Lakes" or "the Land of 10,000
Lakes", actually it's 11,842, I didn't count them, I'm relying on Wikipedia here.
And these are lakes of greater than or equal to ten acres in size.
Now, where are you?
You are right here in the Twin Cities Metro area.
This part of Minnesota is one of my favorite parts.
It is a lot of wilderness and it joins with the Canadian wilderness, it is the Boundary
Waters Canoe Area wilderness of over a million square acres and it gets even bigger than
that when you add the quetico which conjoins it in uh, Canada.
If you like canoeing and uh, and if you like off, being off road, because there are no
roads or anything in that particular area, it is a wonderful place to go.
And I think it is the largest contiguous area of its kind in the lower 48 states.
This is what it looks like, one of my favorite places, wonderful trails, wonderful place
to canoe, but there are so many beautiful places in Minnesota, this is just one of them,
but any place you go you are going to have a good time and you are gonna learn something
new.
So if you want to know more about the state of Minnesota, you might take a look at these
two books, North Country The Making of Minnesota, published in 2010, terrific, it really takes
a look at um, especially what happened in Minnesota when European settlement began in
the seventeenth century.
And then, The Land of the Dakota by Bruce White and Gwen Westerman will tell you a lot
about what we know of the ancient tribes as well as the Dakota and the Anashinaabe tribes.
Literature, has anyone ever written about Minnesota?
Well you probably know some of our famous authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, August Wilson,
the playwright, many many others.
But one that you might not know about actually uh, was written about some of what goes on
right here near the university campus, and it's a book called The Boat of Longing by
Ole Rolvaag, and it really tries to capture the emigrant experience to Minnesota.
What you're looking at there is a photograph under the Washington Avenue Bridge, and this
was an area called the Bohemian Flats.
And if you were a poor immigrant coming to Minnesota, that's one of the neighborhoods
you would live in.
If you were an immigrant coming to Minnesota uh, when my grandfather from Sweden came,
he lived in that area and then up on the cliff, which is where the uh, uh, Cedar Riverside
neighborhood is.
And so, um, today our Somali neighbors live in that area uh, as the most recent group
coming to Minnesota, which enriches our culture every time new groups come here.
So that book is really worth reading, if you want to learn a little bit about it from a
literary standpoint.
And that's what the Bohemian Flats looks like today.
That's what it looked like in 1910, this is what it looks like now.
Keep this in mind, so many generations before you have walked this ground.
So many generations before you have tried to find their futures here, and have contributed
to building the futures of their communities.
You are yet another, any place that humans try to do that, to me, is sacred ground.
Think about yourself in that long line of generations, trying to make this a better
planet, a better state, and a better place.
Alright, a little bit about the University of Minnesota.
We were founded in 1851, and yes, we were here before the state of Minnesota was here.
Minnesota became a state in 1858. in 1851, we believed that education was more important
than government, some of us still believe that, *laughs*.
But the point is that this university, higher education as a future for the state of Minnesota,
was extraordinarily important, and still is to this day.
Alright I have a quick quiz for you; when Minnesota became a state in 1858 it chose
the motto, "L'etoile du Nord", this translates to...
For many are cold but few are frozen...
Land of many cultures, mostly throat...
Protecting Ontario from Iowa, sorry if you're from Iowa, I know Mike is but, or...
Star of the North?
And if you're a good french speaker you know that it was "Protecting Ontario from Iowa",
no sorry.
A little background and history, um, we're pretty sure that Charles Hewitt was probably
the first faculty member ever appointed to a university in this country as a teacher,
a professor, of public health.
And he was appointed the non resident professor of public health here at the University in
1874, fascinating to me.
There were three states that had state boards of health, the first three states: Massachusetts,
California, Minnesota was number three.
And uh, our friend Dr. Charles Hewitt, who uh, moved to Red Wing uh, back in those years,
was the first Secretary of that state board of health, and uh, an amazing individual.
This house, which still stands in Red Wing, just down the road here, 216 Dakota Avenue,
is a public health landmark.
Why?
Because that's where he lived and that's where he also worked to create vaccines, such as
for smallpox, okay?
And he also created the very first state- wide epidemiological network, looking for
infectious and communicable disease that we could respond to rapidly.
In a day, when we didn't yet have telephone but we did have telegraph.
So almost every physician in the state of Minnesota and every small town was deputized
in some way to assist that.
And Minnesota got a reputation very early as a state that cared about public health.
Well we didn't get around to establishing a school of public health until 1944, and
Gaylord Anderson was the man who did that, a physician who also held a Doctorate in public
health from Harvard, and uh, was also Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and
Public Health in the medical school, and a friend of the Mayo brothers.
And when the Mayo brothers passed away, it was a request from there estates, that actually
helped to establish this school of public health, and you probably will notice the Mayo
name in a variety of places.
Mayo auditorium, the Mayo building, which is where many of us hold office, and at the
same time, I get to hand out Mayo professorships of public health, which is something that
has come down from the very beginning.
Um, Dr. Anderson served in World War II, and while he was gone, the acting Dean was Dr.
Ruth Boyton, you will notice Boyton Health Service, well Ruth Boyton was a physician,
a researcher, and an administrator, and she kept the place together while he was gone
and began the growth of the School of Public Health that we know today.
uh, an amazing individual.
Um, here's another individual that has contributed a lot to the school, Leonard Schumann, a physician
and public health researcher, he founded the division of epidemiology in the early fifties,
he established the first PhD in epidemiology, it came from Leonard's work out of this school,
just amazing.
Leonard served on a variety of polio, of- of uh, various kinds of projects, he was a
very interesting epidemiologist, because he did both infectious and chronic disease, today
you don't find that very often.
In those days he was one of those people that was at home in either side of epidemiology.
Um, he uh, served on the US Surgeon General's report of smoking, and yes he was a smoker,
and um, he told this great story on himself, that when the uh, Luther Terry, the Surgeon
General in the sixties, 1964, when they uh, presented the report to the world, he was
there, and when he got home from this big deal, he went out in the garage to have a
smoke, and all of the cigarettes he had out in the garage were gone.
And um, he asked his wife, "Dear, where are my cigarettes?" and she said, "You know, I
saw the film of what you guys have found out on TV, you're quitting".
And he did, no question of it.
Ansel Keys, founder and director of the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, did the very famous
human starvation studies, any of you been in the United States Army, or military, and
eaten K- rations?
The "K" stands for Keys.
He also, he and his wife Margaret Keys, introduced the whole country to the Mediterranean diet
beginning in the sixties.
Jim Hamilton, founder of one of the first degree programs in Hospital Administration
in the USA, which is now the Masters of Health Administration, founded here in 1946.
John Preluski, a health economist, founded the division, of the uh, Center for Health
Services Research, which was a forerunner for our division of Health Policy and Management.
And environmental health sciences, the history goes back into the thirties, and eventually
under Herbert Bosch, it became a department within the School of Public Health.
Bio statistics, the fourth of our units, that actually started here in the twenties, finally
in the fifties it became uh, a unit within the School of Public Health, and Jacob Bierman
was one of those first directors of Bio statistics who started to train an enormous number of
bio statisticians, which we desperately needed in those days.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
And this is your leadership team, from the divisions on the top, our four leaders, and
our Deans on the bottom there, including yours truly.
We owe a huge debt to all those people that have come before.
So these are all the colleges in the University of Minnesota, and the ones I have circled
are in the academic health center, but I will tell you there is not a college up there that
public health does not have a relationship with in some way, shape, or form.
So take advantage of that while you're here.
Take advantage of the richness and the depth of what you have here in the Academic Health
Center and at the University of Minnesota.
And lastly, welcome home.
Whether you're from Minnesota or not, welcome to your new home.
Thank you very much.
*applause*
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