[2] Local professional leaders, including Lawrence Arnstein, Ford Rigby, and William Sheppard, used the momentum set in motion by this curriculum to successfully appeal the California State Legislature to create such a school.

The result was AB515, signed into law by Governor Earl Warren in 1943, which appropriated funds for a school of public health at the University of California.

[5] The baccalaureate degree program continued, but the school began to devote much of its resources to graduate training.

[8] Berkeley also offers a number of joint MD/MPH programs with the Stanford University School of Medicine and UCSF.

U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Berkeley's Master of Public Health program 10th in the nation in 2024.