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Public Health

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Alan Gregg Papers

 Collection — Box 39 - RECORDS CLOSED
Identifier: MS C 190
Abstract Dr. Alan Gregg was with the Rockefeller Foundation from 1922 to 1956, the year he retired. He was Associate Director in the Division of Medical Education, 1922-1930; Director of the Division of Medical Sciences, 1930-1951; and, Vice-President of the Foundation, 1951-1956. Correspondence, journals, notes, oral history transcripts, scrapbooks, printed matter, and reprints. Personal items include family letters, biographical profiles, reflections and observations, diaries, and commonplace...
Dates: 1900-1985
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Antonia C. Novello Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 639
Abstract

Antonia Novello, born in Puerto Rico in 1944, was the first woman to serve as United States Surgeon General. Speeches, presentations, subject files, electronic born digital files, professional conference and meeting materials, awards, and personal biographical materials document Dr. Novello's professional public health and public service career. The largest portion of the collection relates to Novello's tenure as New York State Commissioner of Health.

Dates: 1969-2008
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Association of State and Territorial Health Officers Archives

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 270
Abstract The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials is the national non-profit organization representing the state and territorial public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia. ASTHO's members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy, and to assuring excellence in state-based public health practice. Collection contains correspondence, memoranda,...
Dates: 1946-1967
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Charles W. Johnson, Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 585
Abstract

Contains correspondence, reports, plans, and proposals for academic programs at Meharry Medical College, also a number of Dr. Johnson's speeches and writings.

Dates: 1934-2003
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Clippings relating to public health in Louisiana and New Orleans

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS C 475
Scope and Contents

Contains clippings apparently collected by the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. Subjects include many aspects of public health with a substantial ber of clippings pertaining to bubonic plague.

Dates: 1914-1923.
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America Archives

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 233
Abstract

Contains correspondence, annual proceedings, public health papers, data on membership and meetings, printed matter, and photo. Papers for years 1940-55 not in collection.

Dates: 1900-1974
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Documents on the origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 264
Abstract

Copies of articles, reports and correspondence compiled for the 1972-1973 ad hoc advisory panel commissioned to investigate the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama.

Dates: 1921-1973
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Elizabeth G. Pritchard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 187
Abstract Reports, documents, memoranda, drafts, correspondence, and printed matter that seem to solely relate to writing projects pertaining to the U.S. Public Health Service. Subjects include a history of the USPHS during World War II; policies and activities in Civilian Health Districts 1-10; medical and social aspects of tuberculosis, venereal disease, malaria, sanitation, and industrial health; the Emergency Medical Service; care of sick and wounded; civil defense; health problems relating to the...
Dates: 1936-1959
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Esmond Ray Long Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 362
Abstract

Biographical data, correspondence, drafts and articles, and printed matter. A sizable portion of the collection pertains to Dr. Long's publications and his work as editor.

Dates: 1920-1974
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

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
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections