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Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Bess Furman (Armstrong) Papers - Project materials pertaining to a history of the U.S. Public Health Service
Manuscript copy, and related materials, of Furman's history of the Public Health Service, 1798-1948, ending with the administration of Dr. Thomas Parran.
C. Everett Koop Papers
Dr. C. Everett Koop was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) in February 1981, and sworn in as Surgeon General on November 17, 1981. The collection documents Koop's career as a leading pediatric surgeon during the 1950s-1970s, his activities as Surgeon General from 1981-1989 and the many public health issues with which he was concerned, and some of his post-Surgeon General's career as a health advocate.
Charles Armstrong Collection
Contains reprints of articles authored by Charles Armstrong and a bibliography prepared and collected by Dr. James P. Leake.
Elizsabeth G. Pritchard Papers
Emery A. Johnson Papers
Emery A. Johnson (1929-2005), American physician, administrator, and health advocate, devoted his career to improving the health needs of the country's Native American and Alaska Native populations. He was the fourth director of the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.), an Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, and a life-long supporter of allowing American Indians to take control of their own health care management.
George Rosen Public Health Oral History Collection
Collection of interviews conducted for source material for Rosen's projected history of United States public health in the postwar years; also included is some draft background materials.
George Shiras Papers
Correspondence, reprints and clippings primarily documenting Shiras' collaboration with the Committee of One Hundred to create a national health department.
George St. John Perrott Papers
Harold Fred Dorn Papers
A medical statistician for the U.S. Public Health Service. Worked in work in epidemiology, population studies.
Health Organisation Correspondence
Private and official letters of U.S. Public Health officers and other members of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations.
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