Medical Humanities Blog

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New Archives in History of Public Health Policy Posted: 29 Nov 2010 08:15 PM PST Cool new archival resources on the history of public health policy: In February of 2007, Harvard Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine started the Foundations in Public Health Policy program in an attempt to process and make available a number of "hidden collections" related to public health. These collections are now open to research. The Allan Macy Butler Papers: Butler, an academic, pediatrician, researcher, and political activist, was Chief of the Children's Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School from 1942 to 1960. The Leona Baumgartner Papers: Baumgartner was the first woman commissioner of the  New York City Department of Health, 1954 to 1962, and was later a national advocate and adviser to the federal government on the expansion of public health efforts in maternal health, preventive medicine, and international aid The Howard Hiatt Papers: Hiatt was the first Herrman L. Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass from 1963 to 1972.