Records of the Harvard School of Public Health, 1913-1976 (bulk).

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Records of the Harvard School of Public Health, 1913-1976 (bulk).

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Records of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) include files of Drinker as dean and as professor in the Department of Physiology; faculty minutes, 1958-1977; records of Division of Industrial Hygiene, the Departments of Tropical Medicine and of Maternal and Child Health, and of the President's Committee to Study the Future of HSPH, 1972; curriculum material and reports from the early cooperative public health program; reports of special projects and conferences sponsored by HSPH and other official publications; and faculty publications. Division of Industrial Hygiene records, 1918-1934, contain correspondence, minutes of meetings and reports of the Committee on Industrial Hygiene, and lists of departmental publications. Department of Tropical Medicine material includes correspondence of Frederick C. Shattuck concerning funding and organization of the department; correspondence of George C. Shattuck regarding a research project in Panama and other matters; account books; and alumni records of classes of 1913-1936. Major correspondents include Richard Pearson Strong. Records of Department of Maternal and Child Health include reports about teaching maternal and child health in public health schools, some correspondence, and reprints. Much of this material belongs to Martha Eliot. Records of the President's Committee contain minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports of consultants, and final report to Derek Bok. Harvard-M.I.T. School for Health Officers and School of Public Health records include course material; registration cards; and reports on epidemiology, environmental and industrial health, clinical medicine, and health services. Other holdings from HSPH are deans' reports, 1946-1954; Accreditation Task Group reports, 1975-1976; reports to the Board of Overseers, 1949; transcripts from Office of Program Planning, 1972-1976; applications to foundations; and 2 films about yellow fever research in 1920. Graduate student theses from HSPH are also available in the Archives.

33 boxes and 172 v.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Hamilton, Alice

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Bok, Derek C. (Derek Curtis), 1930-

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Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978

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Strong, Richard P. (Richard Pearson), 1872-1948

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Strong (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1897) was chief of the medical department of the General Hospital in Manila (1910-1913) and from 1907 to 1913 taught tropical medicine in the Philippine University's College of Medicine and Surgery, which he helped to organize. In 1913 Strong became the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, and between 1913 and 1934 made several expeditions to afflicted areas in South and Central America and Africa to investigate diseases and obtain material for his laborat...

Drinker, Katherine Rotan, 1889-1956.

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Harvard School of Public Health

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The Harvard School of Public Health began as a cooperative program between Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The School for Health Officers of Harvard University and M.I.T. opened in 1913 as the first formally organized school of public health in the U.S. The name of the school was changed to Harvard-M.I.T. School of Public Health in 1918, and courses in industrial hygiene were offered in that year. In 1922 the school was reorganized under the direction of Harvard whi...

Shattuck, Frederick Cheever, 1847-1929

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1873) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard until 1912, overseer of Harvard University from 1913 to 1919, and consulting physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. His professional concerns were tropical medicine, typhoid fever, and industrial medicine. His interest in education led to administrative activities. From 1898 to 1909 he served on the medical school's faculty committee to revise curricula, during which time clinical rotations at Boston hospit...

Harvard School of Public Health. Dept. of Tropical Medicine.

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Harvard School of Public Health. Dept. of Physiology.

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Harvard-M.I.T. School of Public Health.

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Harvard School of Public Health. Dept. of Maternal and Child Health.

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Harvard School of Public Health. Committee on Industrial Hygiene.

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Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945

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Edsall (1869-1945) (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1893) was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1918 to 1935 and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from its beginnings in 1921 to 1935. Following graduation from medical school, he worked for four years in a hospital laboratory, then began teaching at University of Pennsylvania (1899-1911) and Washington University in St. Louis (1911-1912); he came to Harvard as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine (1912-1923). His deanship, ...

Rosenau, M. J. 1869-1946.

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Harvard Medical School.

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Shattuck, George Cheever, 1879-1972

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1905) was clinical professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1938 to 1947. His research interest was the clinical aspects of exotic and tropical diseases. From the description of Papers of George Cheever Shattuck, 1829-1970 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281437161 Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1905) was assistant professor of tropical medicine, 1921-1938, and clinical professor of tropical medicine,1938-1947, at Harvar...

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Drinker, Cecil Kent, 1887-1956

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Radcliffe College

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