Papers, 1952-1965 (bulk).

United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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In March 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system." Nixon's request was the result of several independent events and initiatives throughout the late 1960s that focused on the U.S. lack of an efficient system for maintaining a sufficiently ample, risk-free national blood supply. The primary aim of the policy was to eliminate the nation's dependence on an oft-con...

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

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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...

United States. Children's Bureau

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Day, Richard L.

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World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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Brooks, Milo

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Parmalee, Arthur.

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Coombe Lying-in Hospital

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Spillius, Elizabeth Bott, 1924-

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Elizabeth Bott Spillius trained in anthropology in Canada, the U.S. and London. After the publication of her doctoral research 'Family and social networks' she joined James Spillius in Tonga in 1958 and soon after began work as an anthropologist for the Tongan Traditions Committee under the guidance of Queen Salote Tupou. Her research there formed the basis of her publication 'Tongan society at the time of Captain Cook's visits'. From the description of Research notes. 1958-1960. (Na...

Howland, John, 1873-1926

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Mann, Ida, 1893-1983

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Ida Mann worked as an ophthalmic surgeon in Perth and helped establish a medical school at the University. She investigated the incidence and treatment of trachoma amongst the Aboriginal people in northern Australia. Author of The science of seeing, The development of the human eye, The chase: an autobiography and other works. From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221148190 ...

Harlow, Harry F. (Harry Frederick), 1905-1981

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Dunham, Ethel C. (Ethel Collins), 1883-

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Dunham, premature infant specialist and child advocate, was instrumental in establishing national (US) standards for the care of newborns. Dunham graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1918, and completed an internship in pediatrics under Dr. John Howland in 1920. Dunham then was appointed instructor at Yale Medical School in 1920, was promoted to assistant and then associate clinical professor in 1927. During this time, Dunham became a consultant to the United States Children's ...