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MediCiti College
of Public Health
Leadership

A message from our Principal.

On why this college exists, and what it asks of every student who joins it.

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"We did not set out to build another college. We set out to answer a question the Foundation kept running into on the ground: who is going to train the people who actually do this work?"

For years, Share Medical Care Foundation ran clinics and outreach programs across communities that had never had consistent access to preventive care. What became clear, again and again, was that the shortage wasn't just doctors — it was public health practitioners who understood how family health, environment, and policy fit together on the ground.

MediCiti College of Public Health is our answer to that gap. We did not want a college that produced graduates who had only ever studied health from behind a desk. Every program here is built around a placement inside a real clinic, a real water system, a real district health office — because that is where public health is actually practiced.

I ask every incoming student the same thing: come here ready to work inside communities, not just study them. If you do that, you'll leave not just with a degree, but with the judgment that only comes from practice.

I look forward to welcoming our founding cohort.

— Principal, MediCiti College of Public Health

Want to know more about our approach?

Read our vision and mission, or explore the founding pillars behind the curriculum.