Army Medical School

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Founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893, the Army Medical School (AMS) was by some reckonings the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine. (The other institute vying for this distinction is the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (1916).)

Between 1893 and 1910, it was housed within the Army Medical Museum and Library ("Old Red") which was located on the National Mall, Washington, DC, on the present site of the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

The AMS was the precursor of a number of later U.S. Army institutions which, after several relocations and renamings, became the present Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 1954.