Grout, Ruth E. (Ruth Ellen), 1901-1998

Taught health education at the University of Minnesota for twenty-four years and served as representative for the World Health Organization and US/AID.

From the description of Papers, 1934-1984. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40067341

Ruth Ellen Grout was a public health educator who began her career as director of a health education project in the rural schools of Cattaraugus County, New York. From 1939-42 she was a Senior Supervisor of Health Education for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and from 1942-43 a consultant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. She was appointed to an associate professorship in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 1943, and retired in 1967, but also worked with the World Health Association in the United States, Europe, and Africa from 1952 through 1971. In 1969-70, she was a consultant in Jamaica on a US/AID assignment.

From the description of Ruth E. Grout papers, 1893-1975. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63314389

Ruth Ellen Grout, B.A. (1923) Mount Holyoke College; M.P.H. (1930), Ph.D. (1939) Yale University. Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota (1943-1967). Consultant, World Health Organization, author of Health Teaching in Schools .

Ruth Ellen Grout was born in Princeton, Massachusetts in 1901. She earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1930 and 1939, respectively. Grout began her public health education career as director of a health education project in the rural schools of Cattaraugus County, New York (1931-1938). From 1939-1942 she was a Senior Supervisor of Health Education for the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1942-1943 she was a consultant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C.

She was appointed to an associate professorship in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in 1943 and retired from the University in 1967 as Professor Emeritus. In addition to her teaching duties, Grout also worked with the World Health Organization from 1952 to 1971. She organized the first two European seminars on health education, which were held in London (1952-1953) and Wiesbaden, Germany (1956-1957). In 1969-1970, she was a consultant in Jamaica on a US/AID assignment. Ruth Grout died in 1998.

From the guide to the Ruth Ellen Grout papers, 1893, 1929-1975, (bulk 1930-1975), (University of Minnesota Libraries. University of Minnesota Archives [uarc])