Virginia Brown, Ida Bahl, and Lillian Watson Collection, 1922-1994

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Virginia Brown, Ida Bahl, and Lillian Watson Collection, 1922-1994

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This collection pertains to Public Health Nursing among Native American people, with emphasis on the Navajo Tribe. This collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript, a questionnaire, and responses, personal reminiscences, articles, essays, many government documents and pamphlets, as well as photographs (see Photographic Collection), which depict Reservation life through the eyes of Public Health nurses, Native Americans, and government officials and includes a wealth of statistical material and government data.

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Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Brown, Virginia, 1926-

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Born March 13, 1926, Virginia Brown attended the Medical College of Richmond, Virginia and received her diploma in 1948. She spent three years working with the Navajo tribe. In 1967, Virginia was hired as the first research nurse in the Indian Health Service, and was assigned to the new unit in Tucson. The unit had previously opened in 1965 and was then called Operations Systems Analysis Module (OPSAM). OPSAM's first mission was to analyze systems of health care and find the most ef...