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Eugene P. Campbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 467
Abstract Dr. Campbell earned a M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1933 and a master's in public health from the Pennsylvania School of Public Health in 1942. When the Second World War broke out, he was teaching epidemiology there and wanting to contribute to the war effort, he went to work for the fledgling Institute of Inter-American Affairs (IIAA). The papers date from the 1940s to the 1970s and consist of Campbell's journals and their accompanying photographs, correspondence, reports and...
Dates: 1941-1986

Fred Lowe Soper Papers

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Identifier: MS C 359
Abstract Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow...
Dates: 1919-1975

Mason V. Hargett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 533
Abstract

Mason V. Hargett contributed greatly to the field of tropical medicine with his work on the yellow fever vaccine, first with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil and then at the USPHS Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. Hargett's research facilitated the introduction of a yellow fever vaccine produced without human serum.

Dates: 1932-1986 (bulk 1938-1946)