The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Deborah Prothrow-Stith

4/20/2005; 12/7/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.103

Academic administrator, state government appointee, and public health professor Deborah Prothrow-Stith (1954 - ) was appointed as the first woman and youngest Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1995, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Commission on Crime Control and Prevention. Prothrow-Stith was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/20/2005 and 12/7/2005, in Boston, Massachusetts and Milton, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 11m 41s

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Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, 1954-....

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Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith is a nationally recognized public health leader with applied and academic experience ranging from neighborhood clinics and inner city hospitals, to serving as a state commissioner of public health, to being a dean and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Prothrow-Stith is a pioneer in defining, researching, and treating violence, especially among youth, as a public health crisis/problem rather than as a law and order issue. ...