The School of Public Health’s Division of Sociomedical Sciences, and the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine are located at the Health Sciences campus at 168th Street and Broadway. In addition to public health laboratories, clinics and the Presbyterian Hospital, the Health Sciences campus is home to the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library and Archives. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, located on Morningside Heights at 116th Street and Broadway, is home to the Department of History and Butler Library, one of the nation’s premier research libraries and rare books and manuscript collections. Shuttle busses as well as public transportation link the two campuses.

New York City provides a unique combination of resources for the historian and the public health practitioner. It brings together a wide range of public health needs with one of the world’s most comprehensive network of medical care and social services. Its history has been shaped by longstanding concern for the problems of poverty and disease and it has been a laboratory for a variety of national and local experiments in social welfare and health planning. The historical resources available in New York City are a rich mix of archival records stored in public and private agencies as well as some of the leading libraries in the world for the study of the history of public health and medicine: the New York Public Library, the New York Academy of Medicine and the libraries of Columbia University. Students also have easy access to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and to the extensive network of archives and collections throughout the northeast.