The Institute of Public Health is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. The Jagiellonian University is one of the oldest higher education institutions in Europe and the leading scientific institution in Poland. It collaborates with major foreign academic centers and comprises sixteen faculties, where 4,000 academic staff conduct research and provide education to almost 50,000 students.

The Jagiellonian University Medical College is the leading Polish academic center. It takes pride in its excellent teaching staff and consists of three faculties (Medicine, Pharmacy, and Health Sciences). It employs over 2,000 professionals, including about 1,200 academic teachers and researchers. The Faculty of Health Sciences takes an interdisciplinary approach to public health, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care, and rehabilitation.

The Institute of Public Health is the former School of Public Health in Krakow, a name that has become ingrained in the memory of numerous health professionals and health managers, as it was the first school of public health in Poland. Both under the former and present names, we have conducted scientific research and development, as well as training within the broadly defined area of public health. The focus of our scientific and didactic interests and efforts is on those aspects of health care that fall outside medicine, such as health care organization, administration and management; health economics; social aspects of health care systems; epidemiology; health promotion; community health; nutrition; management of medicines and medical devices; computerization and issues related to dissemination of information within health care system.