Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Standing —Dr. F. Babbott, Dr. Taylor, Dr. J. Babbott, Dr. Pugh, Dr. Ingalls, Dr. Philbrook. Seated —Dr. Wesselhoeft, Dr. Gordon, Dr Rubenstein. DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY John E. Gordon, S.B., Ph.D., M.D., A.M. (hon.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology and Head of the Department Theodore H. Ingalls, A.B., M.D., Sc.D. (hon.), Associate Professor of Epidemiology A. Daniel Rubenstein, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology Thomas F. Pugh, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Pro¬ fessor of Epidemiology Carl E. Taylor, S.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. (Canada), Dr.P.H., As sistant Professor of Preventive Med¬ icine and Epidemiology F. Randolf Philbrook. S.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Epidemiology Frank L. Babbott, Jr., A.B., M.Dt, M.P.H., S.M. in Hyg., Associate in Epidemiology Francis B. Carroll, D.M.D., M.D., M.P.H., Visiting Lecturer on Epidemiology Conrad Wesselhoeft, M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Infectious Diseases John C. Ayres, S.B., M.D., M.P.H., Instructor in Epidemiology Joan G. Babbott, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Research Associate in Epidemiology C. George Tedeschi, M.D., Research Associate in Pathology Louis Weinstein, S.M. Ph.D., M.D., Lecturer on Infectious Diseases Hugh L. C. Wilkerson, S.B., M.D., M.P.H., Lecturer on Epidemiology 16 Nicholas J. Fiumara, M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Epidemiology

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U NDER the unifying concept of Host, Agent, and Environment, Professor John E. Gor¬ don and his colleagues introduce the student to the methods and techniques of Epidemiology in Course lb. One soon learns that the epidemio¬ logic approach has long since broadened its focus from the communicable diseases to all diseases that affect population groups. Thus, in addition to such chronic diseases as cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis, mental illness, accident, fertility, alcoholism and many other conditions are sub¬ jected to epidemiologic analysis. Although the basic course in the Department is labeled Principles of Epidemiology,” it might also be called global epidemiology.” References to all parts of the world are made to illustrate basic principles and their application to the study of mass disease. In addition, laboratory courses dealing with problems in acute and chronic in¬ fection, chronic non-infective diseases, and mass injury are given. Specialized courses for majors in epidemiology, biostatistics, and microbiology as well as for students from the military services are offered. The research activities of the departmental staff are. worldwide. Within the past year the third BORDER CONFERENCE DR. GORDON phase of long-term studies of intestinal pathogens has been completed in Greenland. The India- Harvard-Ludhiana project, a field investigation of population dynamics in the Punjab, was under¬ taken in 1956 and will continue until I960. Local activities of the Department include (a) experimental studies in the production of con¬ genital anomalies in mammals, (b) a community study of single impact stress in mental disorder, (c) a study of equine encephalitis, (d) studies to determine the relationships between meteoro¬ logical conditions and the causes and frequency of deaths, and (e) diagnostic methods applicable to the epidemiology of leprosy. 17