Brick and Mortar schools of public health such as the London School of Hygiene, the Graduate School of Public Health in Pittsburgh, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Harvard, are needed to build the upper level infrastructure for prevention and health. World-class schools of public health can be built in developing countries for a fraction of the cost of a hospital, a medical school or a public health school in the US.9 Such schools should be accredited to world class standards. It is most difficult for medical schools in developing countries to compete in research and training with schools in the US because of cost and resource limitation.

Second point: fraction of the cost of a hospital or medical school in South Asia