1988-2011 Medical discovery and disease trends 1988: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies publishes its landmark report, Future of Public Health, which defined the core functions and essential services of the US public health system. 1988: Harvard AIDS Initiative was founded following the discovery of HIV-2 in 1986. 1990: The Human Genome Project, an endeavor to map out the human genome down to the genes began. The results of this project would later on have a major impact on public health and disease treatments. 1990: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty published the “Six Cities†study which le
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