Ever since it was established, the School has been focusing on the promotion of the applied science and research. There has existed a clear consciousness about the interconnection between science, research, industry and application of health care technology.

Very soon, the School accepted and improved the concept, according to which the transfer of scientific achievements into understandable messages and their acceptance among the people are exceptionally important for the development of science and technology.

This has been confirmed today by the accelerated development of biotechnologies. The limits for the development of biotechnologies are determined by the capacity of ethical and social acceptability of achievements and by the reception capacity of an average citizen.

In the period between 1932 and 1936, scientific researchers at the "Andrija Štampar" School of Public Health developed a new medicine called Neosalvarzan, which was very successful in treating meningitis in many countries.

Medicines for meningitis, variola, diphtheria, cholera, influenza, etc. were developed in research departments of the School and its laboratories.

137 lecturers from 21 countries of the world and more than 700 participants attended the previously organised gathering “Biotechnologies and Public Health”. Researchers in the field of human genetics, who work for the leading world laboratories, and also clinicians, who work on the application of these technologies, participated in the meeting.

A specific feature of this project is that it offers an opportunity for experts in the field of ethics, ecology, bioethics, health economics and finance to participate in the dialogue on equal terms. This is how the School has remained consistent with its approach: “Entitlement to Science”, i.e. integrated approach to science. Today, when the School is confronted by the challenges of biotechnologies of the 21st century, this proves to have been a good choice.

Research activities are very strong within the School. This year, on the basis of independent reviews, the Ministry of Science and Technology assessed a huge integrated project of the "Andrija Štampar" School of Public Health as extremely valuable, the project that incorporates several significant components for examining determinants of health: genetic, socio-behavioural, ecologic and systemic.

In the last three years, the Ministry of Science and Technology has financed the employment of a significant number of scientists-novices at the School. It seems that this investment has already proved to be the right one. Eight of them have completed or are presently participating in the education and research work in London, Edinburgh, Nijmegen, Atlanta, Melbourne. The principle of Štampar is being obeyed: “Support for Everyone who Returns!”

The number of scientific theses published in internationally indexed publications (ISI WEB of SCIENCE) signed by scientists from the "Andrija Štampar" School of Public Health has been doubled. Some of the professors are often cited in internationally indexed quotations (633 times), which represent international top achievement in the field of public health.

Among the members of the School there have been numerous winners of national awards for science of the Republic of Croatia, a President and many members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts.