Global Health

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...

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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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Howard Calderwood was a member of the U.S. delegation to the WHO's formation.

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Consists of information on international health organizations and related material, 1945-1946. Includes memoranda from Thomas Parran. Also includes cover letter from Howard B. Calderwood, dated 1977.

Collection Summary

Consists of a cover letter from Rupert Blue to William H. Welch, dated March 18, 1919 and an eleven-page memo. A copy of Blue's "Memorandum relative to the development of national and international programs of public health" was included, intending to inform Welch of Blue's "views in regard to the relation of the Public Health Service with the development of a national health post-war program."

Scope and content Chron files, correspondence, travel files, reprints, lectures/speeches/presentations, editorial files, slides, digital media, photographs, limited personal/biographical material, framed diplomas/posters. Lots of loose documents and email printouts. Records from Krause's office at the time of his death. Primarily presentations/slides and reprints from throughout Krause's NIH and Rockefeller University tenures (not much from Emory?). Also records documenting Krause's tenure at the Fogarty...