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Collection JHUBSPH : Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

Description

Key

111637

Reference Code Element

JHUBSPH

Dates

1918-, inclusive

Creator

Corporate name, Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health

Administrative/Biographical History

In 1916 the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation decided on the Johns Hopkins University as the site for an institute of health and hygiene. Thus the dream of William H. Welch for a separate hygiene institute for Hopkins became a reality.
Welch had long stressed the importance of hygiene and preventive medicine in the education of a physician. In 1915 along with Wickliffe Rose who had organized hookworm campaigns in the southern United States, Welch prepared a report for the Rockefeller Foundation recommending the creation of a public health school at a university with a medical school of high standard. The Rockefeller Foundation decided that Hopkins would be the place and appropriated 67,000. In October 1918, with Welch as the director, the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health opened its doors to its first students. In its early years the Rockefeller Foundation supported the School with annual grants and in 1922 the Foundation awarded an endowment fund of million. In 1925 the School opened its own building.
As he had been with the Medical School some years before, Welch was the driving force at Hygiene in its formative years. He assembled an excellent faculty which instructed students in preventive medicine, sanitation, epidemiology, bacteriology, immunology and nutrition. Since the early 1920's the School has continued to grow with a multidisciplinary faculty advancing knowledge through research and training students for careers in public health.

Scope and Content

Records of Johns Bloomberg School Public Health document the founding, governance and executive leadership of the school from its inception to today. They include minutes of the school's Advisory Board, Office of Dean correspondence and financial records. There are records pertaining to public health education, research, student life, as well as the school’s academic departments and laboratories, and publications. They also document still photos of buildings, group and portrait photographs of faculty, staff, students and alumni, oral histories, and moving images. In addition, the Archive includes the business correspondence of The American Journal of Hygiene which William Welch launched in 1920.

Language

English

Administration

Accession

2017-082

2017-005

2017-004

2016-044

2015-043

2013-117

2013-017

2011-008

2009-002

2008-102

Composed Of

Found 7 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1- Founding Documents	49173	1916-1922	Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2- Administrative Bodies	49175	1917-	Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3- Office of the Director/Dean	49178	1917-	Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4- Student Records and Organizations	49182	1918-	Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
5- Academic Departments	49185		Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
6- Administrative Offices	299907		Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
7- Publications	49194	1917-	Record group/Fonds	CollectionJHUBSPH- Records of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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