Epidemiologist who helped design early field trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine and who became a medical director of the U.S. Public Health Service. consultant to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from 1953 to 1955, Dr. Dublin was enlisted as the medical field director to help test Salk's experimental polio vaccine. 1955, when he was named medical director of the Public Health Service. A specialist in epidemiology, he was particularly concerned about controlling contagious diseases and broadening the nation's health-care system. held several joint appointments as a senior scientist with the National Institutes of Health, including chief of the epidemiology and biometry branch of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases from 1960 to 1966.
From the guide to the Thomas D. Dublin papers, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)
