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Public Health

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:

Federal Security Agency and Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Speeches Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 643
Abstract

Collected speeches and addresses delivered by Federal Security Agency Administrators and Assistant Administrators (1939-1952); and by Health, Education and Welfare Secretaries, Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries (1953-1976).

Dates: 1939-1976
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Florence Mahoney Health Matters Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 521
Scope and content

Pamphlets and other printed materials on nutrition, dieting, population growth, planned parenthood, psychiatry, environmental concerns and misc.

Dates: 1943-1979
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Franklin A. Neva papers

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2013-001
Abstract UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Trip reports, lecture notes, speeches, oversize data collection books, a diary kept sporadically from 1944 to 50, including the period he spent at NAMRU III in Egypt, personal correspondence beginning in 1942 through 1990 or so, additional photos and kodachrome slides, trip photo albums, some patient slides and possibly a few clinical notes, and selected administrative files and reports and photos taken at NIH, PAHO, IOM. Laboratory books and various files from years...
Dates: 1944-1990
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

George M. Kober Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 315
Abstract Dr. George M. Kober was acting Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army from 1874-86, and in 1890 became Professor of Hygiene at the Georgetown Medical School. An active member of civic and professional organizations, Kober was particularly interested in local health reform. He was Dean of the Georgetown Medical School from 1901-28. Correspondence includes family, general, and business files as well as anniversary volumes of letters. Collection contains material on a variety of medical and public...
Dates: 1866-1938
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

HEW News Release

 Digital Record
Identifier: 101584929X159
Dates: 26 July 1972
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Hugh S. Cumming Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 325
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1945-1977
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Ira Vaughn Hiscock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 364
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, drafts, reprints, and miscellaneous public health data. Includes material on: Arkansas-Mississippi flood (1927), "A national plan for health services" (1934), "Greater Boston community survey" (1949), and "A five year plan ... in Connecticut" (1964). Also contains health data relating to other countries, especially China. Includes notes and printed matter pertaining to W. Frank Walker.

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

Jacob N. Shanberge Medical Stamp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PP08-152
Abstract

The collection includes stamps issued by nations, principalities, protectorates, and other geopolitical entities, as well as organizations such as the United Nations.

Dates: 1897-1992
Found in: Prints and Photographs Collections

James A. Shannon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 363
Abstract

Correspondence, talks, articles, reports and documents, photographs, certificates and diplomas. Dr. Shannon was on the faculty of the New York University College of Medicine from 1929-46. In 1946 he joined the National Institutes of Health, and from 1955-68 Dr. Shannon was Director of the NIH. In 1970 he became Professor and Special Assistant to the President of the Rockefeller University.

Dates: 1924-1975
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

James Angus Doull Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 46
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, articles, photos and printed matter devoted primarily to Doull's research on medical history during his tenure at Johns Hopkins University in the 1920s. Also contains documentation Doull used as a delegate to the International Health Conference in 1946.

Dates: 1921-1964
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections