Cohart, Edward.

Edward Maurice Cohart was born in 1909. He received a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1928 and a M.D. in 1933. Cohart was in private practice from 1935-1942. He received a M.P.H. degree in 1947, and was a cancer control consultant for the United States Public Health Service from 1947-1948. Cohart was an associate professor of public health at Yale University from 1948-1956, a professor of public health from 1956-1960, and the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Public Health from 1960-1978.

• 1909: born in Brooklyn, N. Y.; son of Maurice Abraham and Emma (Chess) Cohart
• 1928: received B. A. from Columbia University
• 1933: received M. D.
• 1933: married Mary Schleifer
• 1935 - 1942 : in private practice
• 1947: received M. P. H.
• 1947 - 1948 : cancer control consultant, United States Public Health Service
• 1948 - 1956 : Associate professor of public health, Yale University
• 1955 - 1956 : Deputy commissioner of Department of Health, New York City; also consultant in public health at Institute of Public Administration, N. Y.
• 1956: received Honorary M. A. from Yale University
• 1956 - 1960 : Professor of public health, Yale University
• 1960 - 1978 : Charles-Edward A. Winslow Professor of Public Health, Yale University
• 1961: Acting chairman, Department of Public Health, Yale University
• 1965 - 1968 : Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Schools of Public Health
• 1966 - 1967 : President, New England Public Health Association
• 1966 - 1968 : Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University,
• 1978: Charles-Edward A. Winslow Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Yale University

-from Who's Who in America, 40th ed., 1978-1979, p. 635; Historical Register of Yale University, 1951-1968, p. 219

From the guide to the Edward Maurice Cohart papers, 1936-1978, (Manuscripts and Archives)