With the addition of its new undergraduate degree program, Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health announced that it will take “Graduate” out of its name and become the Pitt School of Public Health.

Street Medicine at Pitt aims to provide acute medical care, food and support to homeless people through weekly visits around Oakland.

Pitt is launching a new undergraduate program for students interested in studying or pursuing careers in public health. Students will begin to matriculate into the program in fall 2022. The program has already received more than 800 applications.

Pitt has launched the Pitt2Pitt program, which loosens entry requirements for 39 master’s programs in 11 schools for undergraduate students graduating this year.

A new Pitt Public Health study found a connection between the gifts physicians receive from pharmaceutical companies and the amount of opioids they prescribe.