Public Health Administration

Scope and content Collection consists of an assortment of administrative operational reports covering a variety of functional areas such as finance, personnel, general operations, leadership guidance, member representatives, conference/meeting planning, and general notices of the Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China. The reports cover a wide variety of activities such as improving local sanitation; establishing community first aid stations and trainings; combatting coal gas poisonings from home...

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Manuscript copy, and related materials, of Furman's history of the Public Health Service, 1798-1948, ending with the administration of Dr. Thomas Parran.

Abstract Donald Sharp Fredrickson (1924-2002) was an American physiologist and science administrator who made contributions to American medicine over the course of four decades, first as a laboratory scientist, then as a leader of several prominent medical research institutions. As director of the National Institutes of Health from 1976 to 1981, Fredrickson mediated between scientists and the federal government during contentious, far-ranging debates over the direction of medical research policy,...

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Eugene L. Bishop's committee minutes and reports for his section of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.

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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).

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Correspondence, reprints and clippings primarily documenting Shiras' collaboration with the Committee of One Hundred to create a national health department.

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Assistant executive director of the Public Health Service's Bureau of Medical Services, Murtaugh's files document meetings, research of public health issues, legislative activities, and program initiatives.

Abstract Correspondence, reports, speeches, testimonies, hearings, audiovisual material, and biographical material primarily documents June Osborn's professional career as expert advisor in urgent health and medical issues -- including AIDS, virology, infectious diseases, vaccines, and public health policy -- for numerous government agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and as Chair of the National...

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Presentations, correspondence, event proceedings, speeches, writing, reports, research materials, briefing documents, meeting agendas, articles, and administrative materials document Dr. Collins’s public-facing work as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A physician-geneticist, Dr. Collins took office as the 16th NIH Director on August 17, 2009 through December 19, 2021.

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Photographs, negatives, videotapes, and speech texts documenting the celebration of NIH's centennial in 1987.