Unit II - Planning, Organization, and Control [- Course Binder], 1965 Feb 8-12

The Early Public Health Career series includes reports, correspondence, memoranda, procedural documents, newsletters, meeting material, and manuscripts from the years Johnson served in various medical and administrative positions within the Public Health Service's Division of Indian Health (DIH). It chronicles the first decade and a half in which the DIH was responsible for delivering health care services to the American Indian population. This series mostly documents administrative actions; there is little information on Johnson's activities as a medical officer at different reservations.

There are seven sub-series: General, Training, Policies and Procedures, Health Studies and Services, Reports, Meetings, and Health Program Systems Center. The General sub-series consists of such Johnson-related material as his correspondence, PHS assignment orders, foreign travel information, and notes. The Training sub-series contains material from several training programs and workshops; it features Johnson's course binders from the American Management Association's Management Course. The Policies and Procedures sub-series consists of procedural guidelines and policy statements that applied to the DIH in general as well as those written for specific programs and facilities. Material in the Health Studies and Services sub-series documents specific Native American health studies, conditions, programs, facilities, and services at the local or national level. By contrast, material in the Reports sub-series documents broader DIH-activities and medical summations on the entire American Indian population, including a series of reports on some Federal Indian Reservations and statistical reports. The Meetings sub-series consists of planning material, agendas, minutes, reports, and correspondence related to meetings sponsored by the DIH. Finally, the Health Programs Center sub-series contains papers and reports produced by a particular center located in Tucson, Arizona. Folders within each sub-series are arranged chronologically by date.