Howard B. Calderwood World Health Organization development collection, 1945-1946.

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Howard B. Calderwood World Health Organization development collection, 1945-1946.

Includes letters, reports, abstracts, and index. Names prominent in the collection include Hugh S. Cumming, James A. Doull, Sir Wilson Jameson, John Murdock, Thomas Parran, Robert Pierret, and Lewis L. Williams.

1 MS. box (ca. 95 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6825315

National Library of Medicine

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Calderwood, Howard B. (Howard Black), 1898-

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The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 in response to the health effects and technical advances during World War II. It absorbed its prececessor, the Health Organization of the League of Nations. WHO exists within general framework of the United Nations, designed as a "single specialized agency with a high degree of independence." (from "Development and constitution of the W.H.O." Chronicle of the World Health Organization, vol. 1, no. 1, 1947). Howard Calderwood was a membe...

World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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