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

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Dr. Leslie Silverman Professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene and Head of the Department INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE 1

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Lastly, the political, administrative, or demographic characteristics of certain areas may favor carrying out in these areas epidemiologic studies which would be difficult or entirely impossible in other areas. An example of this is the existence in Lebanon of two population groups of similar social circumstances and living conditions, one circumcised and one not. This makes Lebanon an ideal place for a study of cancer of the uterine cervix. Although this is really a national rather than an international study, it is international in the sense that the study was designed here by one of the depart¬ mental seminar participants and the department hopes to keep close contact with it as it develops. The latter situation is frequent. The school, because of the international origins of its student body, has an excellent opportunity to keep in touch with developments in health research throughout the world. Through the influence that we have on students while in the school, and by keeping in contact with alumni, the department has unusual opportunities for imparting an international flavor to many studies which are pre¬ dominantly national in character. The basic problems of design of epidemiologic research are universal. The problem of making a study practicable by translating concepts into operational definitions recurs in every setting. To the extent that any course in epidemiology given to the student body at this school provides experience in coping with such problems, it is a course in international epidemiologic research. 18

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Seated, left to right —Miss Corrigan, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Dennis, Dr. Silverman, Dr. First, Dr. Shapiro, Mrs. Rubenstein. Standing —Mr. Gussman, Dr. Yoder, Mr. Krusen, Mr. Baldwin, Mrs. Croteau, Miss Golich, Mr. Wiedeman, Dr. Devir, Mr. Toohey, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Kyritsis. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE Leslie Silverman, S.B., S.M., S.D., Professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene and Head of the Department Charles R. Williams, Ph.D., A ssociate Professor of Applied Industrial Hygiene George F. Wilkins, A.B., M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Occupational Medicine Charles E. Billings, S.M., Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene Engineering Richard Dennis, S.M., Assistant Professor of Industrial Hygiene Jacob Shapiro, S.B., S.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biophysics in Environmental Hygiene William A. Burgess, S.M., Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering Allen D. Brandt, S.D., Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene Engineering Nathan Van Hendricks, S.B., Chem.E., Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene Engineering Lawrence C. Cooke, Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene James M. Austin, M.A., S.D., Visiting Lecturer on Meteorology and Air Pollution Allen L. Cudworth, S.M., Visiting Lecturer on Control of Noise in Industry Ashley St. Clair, A.B., LL.B., Visiting Lecturer on Workmens Compensation Robert Yoder, B.S., S.D. in Hyg., Associate in Radiological Hygiene Melvin W. First, S.D., Senior Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering Robert A. Gussman, S.B. in Mech. Engineering, S.M. in I.H., Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering George C. Krusen, II, S.M., Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering Charles A. Mitchell, S.M., Assistant in Industrial Hygi ene Theodore Georgiadis, B.S., Research Eelloiv in Industrial Hygiene 20