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Timeline: American Foundations and the History of Public Health

In today’s moment of COVID-19 pandemic crisis, this timeline looks at selected key inflection points in the history of American foundations’ engagement with public health. These episodes underscore the impact of public-private partnerships in approaching global health issues. 1901.

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History of Public Health Archives

WebEarly 20th Century Reforms of Medical Education Worldwide. Working to change US medical education was one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s biggest endeavors in the …

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The Rockefeller Foundation's 20th-Century Global Fight

WebThe International Health Commission was created on June 27, 1913, charged with the “ … promotion of public sanitation and the spread of knowledge of scientific …

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Success and Failure in Community-Based Healthcare: The East

WebThe East Harlem Health Center at 454 East 122nd Street. The majority of the funding for the East Harlem Health Center was projected to come from the service …

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The Long Road to the Yellow Fever Vaccine

WebDr. Hideyo Noguchi. It would be an understatement to say that the road to success in fighting yellow fever was bumpy. Six scientific researchers supported by the …

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Medicine & Public Health Archives

WebEarly 20th Century Reforms of Medical Education Worldwide. Working to change US medical education was one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s biggest endeavors in the …

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Sour Milk: Preventing Infant Mortality with Public Health

WebIt would also examine the infants drinking the milk, to establish any connection between the milk supply and infant mortality. The Rockefeller Institute’s …

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Photo Essay: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the

WebThe Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm (RSC) made the first comprehensive attempt to combat hookworm in the southern US. It also …

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The Women Pioneers of Global Nursing Education Who Built the

WebThe recommendations of the Goldmark Report proved crucial in subsequent RF funding decisions. In the United States, the Yale School of Nursing became the first …

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Evolution of a Foundation: an Institutional History of the

WebWhen the Rockefeller Foundation was founded in 1913, it was one of a mere handful of large-scale philanthropies. By 1982, there were over 22,000 foundations in the United …

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Early 20th Century Reforms of Medical Education Worldwide

WebIn 1910 the Carnegie Foundation issued a landmark report on medical education. Abraham Flexner authored the report, titled Medical Education in the United States and Canada, or …

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Toward a More Robust Study of Mental Health: Rockefeller …

WebInfusing Medicine with Psychiatry. A Trustee Bulletin from 1943 described three reasons for the decision to concentrate resources on psychiatry:Title derived from …

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Eradication or Control

WebThe Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Anti-Malaria Campaigns. Beginning in 1915, the International Health Division, a part of the Rockefeller Foundation, focused a …

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Centering Women's Rights in the Population Field: The Ford

WebBy the 1960s, the Ford Foundation was heavily invested in population work. Foundation program officers described their approach in a 1968 article in the journal …

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Philanthropy and Good Government: The Rockefeller Foundation …

WebFrom the outset, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and its predecessor institutions worked closely with government agencies. Whether it was the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission …

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The Irish Language Debate: Nationalism and Rockefeller …

WebThe problem was compounded, he believed, by poor teaching of the sciences in Irish secondary-level schools. Moreover, it was Gregg’s opinion that the Free …

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Funding a Sexual Revolution: The Kinsey Reports

WebKinsey’s first NRC grant in 1941 amounted to $1,600. By 1947, Kinsey’s project was allotted $40,000 annually in NRC funding, which in turn came entirely from …

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The Rockefeller Foundation’s Rural Reconstruction Program

WebThe Rockefeller Foundation (RF) had a significant history in China by the time it undertook its China Program, a rural reconstruction initiative that ran from 1935 to …

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