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

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Dr. John C. Snyder Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department 26

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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.

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Seated, left to right —Dr. Murray, Dr. Chang, Dr. Edsall, Dr. Snyder, Miss Campbell, Dr. Bell, Dr. Ley. Standing —Mrs. Spielman, Mrs. O ' Connor, Miss Bunzl, Mrs. Owens, Dr. Arsenian, Dr. Martinez-Silva, Dr. Polet, Dr. Vinson, Mrs. Franz, Miss Grear, Mrs. Rota, Mrs. Miskoe, Miss Carson. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY John C. Snyder, A.B., M.D., Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department Geoffrey Edsall, M.D., Professor of Applied Microbiology Edward S. Murray, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Assistant Physician to University Health Services Samuel D. Bell, Jr., A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Microbiology Robert S. Chang, B.Sc., M.D., S.D. in Hyg., Associate Professor of Microbiology Charlotte C. Campbell, B.S., Associate Professor of Medical Mycology Robert A. MacCready, S.B., M.D., Associate in Microbiology and Director of Diagnostic Laboratories, Department of Public Health of Massachusetts James A. McComb, D.V.M., Associate in Public Health Immunology and Director of Biologic Laboratories, Department of Public Health of Massachusetts Robert B. Pennell, S.M., Ph.D., Lecturer on Immunology Herald R. Cox, A.B., S.D., S.D. (hon.), Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Robert J. Huebner, M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology John H. Hanks, S.B., Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Charles H. Rammelkamp, M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Catharine Atwood, A.B., Instructor in Public Health Bacteriology Nadim A. Haddad, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., Research Associate in Microbiology (Absent 1962-63) John W. Vinson, S.B., S.D., in Hyg., Research Associate in Microbiology Roger L. Nichols, A.B., M.D., Research Associate in Microbiology (Absent 1962-63) Dorothy E. McComb, S.B., Assistant in Microbiology Leo Levine, S.B., Assistant in Microbiology Jirair Arsenian, M.D., Research Assistant in Microbiology Herman Polet, M.D., Research Fellow in Microbiology 27