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

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Seated, left to right —Dr. Mason, Dr. Valadian, Dr. Schmidt, Miss Rice, Dr. Miller. Standing — Dr. Sternfeld, Miss Ekdahl, Miss Brum, Mrs. Krakow, Miss Cohn, Dr. Robinson, Mrs. Cowin, Mrs. Perlman. DEPARTMENT OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH William M. Schmidt, S.B., M.D., A.M. (hon.), Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Head of the Department Elizabeth P. Rice, A.B., S.M., Associate Professor of Public Health and Social Work Leon Sternfeld, S.B., M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Clinical Professor of Maternal and Child Health Edward A. Mason, A.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of Mental Health Isabelle Valadian, M.D., M.P.H ., Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health Harold Jacobziner, S.B., M.D., M.P.H., Visiting Lecturer on Maternal and Child Health Arthur J. Lesser, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Visiting Lecturer on Maternal and Child Health Pauline G. Stitt, M.D., M.P.H., Visiting Lecturer on Maternal and Child Health Samuel B. Kirkwood, A.B., M.D., S.D. (hon.), Visiting Lecturer on Maternal Health Edwin M. Gold, S.B., M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Maternal and Child Health Alan F. Guttmacher, A.B., M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Maternal Health Derek Robinson, M.B., Ch.B., D.C.H., D.P.H., M.D., Instructor in Maternal and Child Health Benjamin Sachs, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Instructor in Maternal and Child Health Ilse E. Gorbach, A.B., M.D., M.PH., Instructor in Child Health Helen D. Cohn, R.N., M.P.H., Instructor in Applied Public Health Nursing Zelma B. Miller, S.B., Ph.D., Senior Research Associate in Maternal and Child Health Miriam C. Ekdahl, S.B., S.M. in S.S., Assistant in Social Work Sylvia G. Krakow, S.B., M.S.W., Assistant in Social Work Ruth A. Cowin, S.B., S.M., Assistant in Social Work 24

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MATERNAL and CHILD HEALTH Dr. William M. Schmidt Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Head of the Department 23

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1947 was the first year in which a program of concentration for students with a major interest in Maternal and Child Health was offered. Since then, there have been 137 concentrators in this field. The Department has found satisfaction in having continuing contact with a large number of them. Many are now teaching, or directing Maternal and Child Health programs in local, state, national, and international health organiza¬ tions. In the past year 96 of them have returned questionnaires on their current activi¬ ties. Eighty-eight of those who returned the questionnaires indicated that they continue to be engaged in public health. Of these, 48 have moved into positions of increased and more general responsibility or into related Helds of work, often while continuing some activity and responsibility for MCH teaching or services, and the Department can be proud of the accomplishments of these former students. The Department has continued to maintain an active research program. Members of the Department are engaged in studies of the care of children of parents admitted to a mental hospital. Having determined in a Hrst study that there is litle organized health or social service effectively reaching such children a second phase is in progress, to investigate methods of making services promptly available at the time of the parent’s hospitalization. Other studies have to do with the functions of physician, nurse, and social worker in child health supervision in a community with a high prevalence of health and social problems. The Department has recently participated in a survey of Maternal and Child Health programs in Boston. Maternal and Child Health is usually the Hrst of the personal health services to be introduced in countries which are developing their health programs, but it also plays a role of continuing importance in the more developed countries. For example, in the U.S. there is need to further reduce the infant, especially perinatal, mortality rates and to improve methods of approaching special problems—particularly those leading to handicapping conditions—using this term in its widest sense. The Maternal and Child Health concentrators will be contributing to achieve these aims.