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First social medicine program created in Brussels, Belgium.

1945

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René Sand, whose academic post is created through a Rockefeller Foundation endowment, works to create the first social medicine program at Brussels University.

Porter (2006) writes: "Nineteenth-century health and social reformers had been concerned with developing the political role of medicine in creating egalitarian societies. This concern continued to be a primary goal of twentieth-century medical academics, such as Sand, who wanted to integrate medicine's social role into the training of physicians."