Higher Medical and Pharmaceutical Education in Bucharest dates back more than a century and has its origins in the efforts of Carol Davila, a Romanian physician of French origin who, in collaboration with Nicolae Kretzulescu, set up in 1857 the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy . Despite all the difficulties encountered, the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy gradually developed, and on November 12, 1869, it turned into the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest, a faculty composed at that time of eight departments, including the Department of Hygiene, Legal Medicine and Toxicology.

The public health germs, initially linked to Public Hygiene, Police and Health Administration, appear on I. Felix's initiative and the social variable in determining the state of health on the initiative of Ştefan Şt. Rock, 70-80 years before shaping social medicine as scientific discipline with academic status.
In 1942, following the steps taken by Gheorghe Banu, the first department of social medicine in Romania was established in Bucharest. During this time, hygiene and public health were illustrated by first-person scientific personalities of Romanian medicine such as V. Sion, I. Moldovan, I. Cantacuzino, D. Mezincescu, S. Manuilă, P. Rîmneantu and others.

The history of public health education in over 100 years of existence has several important characteristics.
Thus, his appearance was related to social need, and his development attributable to advances made in medical and social sciences. Social medicine has been since its debates about practice. Moreover, the formal emergence of university education followed the establishment of hygiene and public health institutes in 1927, in Bucharest (D. Mezincescu) and in 1930, in Cluj (I. Moldovan). Public health has developed as a scientific discipline as microbiology, health chemistry and epidemiology have become important, and hygiene has diversified. In fact, the heads of the departments in Bucharest, Cluj and Iasi have worked for a certain period of time and as directors of the respective institutes.

Social and community preoccupations dominated university education, and critical health issues in the rural area made rich literature in this area appear in Bucharest and Iasi (Gh. Banu, Th. Ilea, P. Pruteanu), determined the birth of the Institute of Social Assistance under the leadership of Veturia Mănuilă, the nursing institution and model nets initiated by the Cluj school, as well as the imagination of some new organizational forms in ambulatory assistance in Bucharest, able to support the preventive actions and the practical education of trainees in dispensaries combined General medicine and polyclinics with diagnostic stationary.
Experience has inspired education, and scientific knowledge has fueled the renewal of practice in all university centers. In Cluj, Bucharest and Iasi, the heads of public health departments have performed important functions in the local or central health administration as directors, secretaries-general or ministers, these being true specialty laboratories.

The basic medical training was supplemented by various forms of specialization and advanced or doctoral studies and master courses in Bucharest and Cluj. In these university centers the heads of the departments led the university or postgraduate education as deans or vice-rectors, putting their personality footprint on the organization of the content and the promotion of modern pedagogical methods.
Serious health problems have also called for attention from universities that have been involved in national programs to control communicable diseases, some of which are non-transmissible, with massive spread, reduced infant mortality, or reproductive health promotion.

In this framework, the participation of teachers in Bucharest after 1990 in the new and difficult process of the Romanian care system reform. This change has created new needs in the field of research and development and technical assistance, which is also felt today. This explains the emergence of the National Institute for Health Services and Management in 1991, initially made up of some part-time teachers who, although currently functioning without titular teachers, have a rich activity in the field of technical assistance and postgraduate training, Of many young specialists trained in the country and abroad. The emergence of the Healthcare Management Institute has made it possible to develop didactic and non-didactic staff in many new disciplines of public health management and health services.

The separation of the two components of modern public health into two independent institutes was not beneficial either to the two institutions of the Ministry of Health or to basic and postgraduate medical education. Perhaps the present situation requires an analysis with a modern and efficient organizational solution and especially a human and financial resources support from the two ministries. Experience has shown that the inexplicable long-standing relationship between education and research has been beneficial to both hygiene institutes and departments in their academic work.

The rare human resources available to public health departments today proved to be insufficient to meet both socio-medical development requirements and their own scientific development.
The education of social medicine began 60 years ago in Bucharest by Gh. Banu, but the scientific bases of modern public health were put in Cluj by I. Moldovan and his collaborators.
Domains of overarching concerns can be identified at each of the public health schools in the main provinces of Romania. Thus, in Iasi - rural medicine, demography and epidemiology; In Cluj - quantitative methods, medical-social assistance, the importance of the family and the reorganization of the sanitary system by the Moldovan Sanitary and Welfare Act of 1930, in Timişoara - demography and family medicine, etc.

In Bucharest, the most important center for the public health education and health management in our country, the main concerns were: the assessment of health and quality of life related to health, the complex analysis of human reproduction, the use of new methods for measuring and comparing general mortality And pediatric use, the application of statistical and epidemiological methods in public health, rural health, medicine and family physician, health planning and assessment, health promotion and health education, mass prevention strategies and new health management chapters. A private place after 1992 reformed the health care system in Romania.
Specialists from Bucharest, starting with the youngest, benefited in 1992-2002 from specialization courses and in-depth courses in Europe and North America. Few of them continue to work in public academic institutions in the country. Both the Department of Public Health and Management and the Institute for Management of Health Services have established many collaborative relationships with schools in Western Europe, Canada and the USA.

The current content of public health and management training programs is in line with the European Union Charter on Training Requirements of Public Health Specialists, drafted in 1995 by the EMU.
As public health could not develop outside of society, it suffered the influence of the ideological trends in Romania in the years 1940 - 1990. These are, on the one hand, the eugenic and biopolitical theories present in some of the works of Gh. Banu and I. Moldovan and after 1947-1948, of the overall influence of Semasco's Soviet School in all university centers, especially in the chapters on health care principles, planning and modeling of sanitary organization. It is noteworthy that none of the leaders of the public health departments found themselves in an ideological, militant zeal, and when they could, they happily fought after 1948, developing and applying the components of methods and techniques - Quantified in public health and health administration. Critical or critical theoretical elements from this point of view in their works can not in any way obscure the works made by the main personalities of the medical schools in Romania, mentioned earlier.