... creation of regional nuclei for the formation of human resources in health, some of which have in turnbecome independent schools of public health. In the mid 1970s, two courses in public health ... chool of Public Health of a group of pro-fessors from the university of Campinas, lea d by SergioArouca, who became one of the leaders of the health reform movement in Brazil and a leading architect ... re-orga-nizations of the course, availability of places, varyinginterest in the field of public health as a career, and theavailability of scholarships.Originally, only students with a diploma in m edicinecould...