The University of California, Irvine announced that its newly created school of public health will be named after Joe. C. Wen, founder of multinational conglomerate Formosa Ltd., in recognition of a $50 million gift from Wen.
UCI is transitioning its existing public health program to a school after receiving approval today from the UC Board of Regents.
It’s the first school of public health in Orange County, as well as the first UC school to be named after a Taiwanese American.
“When we created the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, UC Irvine committed to elevating all of our health science programs to full schools, and I am delighted that the regents have completed the final piece of that promise,” Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a statement.
The Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health will be led by Founding Dean Bernadette Boden-Albala.
To read more about UCI’s school of public health, see the July 22nd issue of the Business Journal.
