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

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SOCIAL SCIENCE UNIT T here are two main missions of the Social Science Program: (1) to make physicians and other public health professionals alert to the social and cultural factors in health and to make them familiar with the research methodology of social science; (2) to build scientific knowledge which will help public health change agents or men of action and, equally important, to have this knowledge feed back into and enrich basic social science theory and methodology, per se. Sol Levine Head of the Unit Lejt to right —Norman Scotch, Sol Levine, Sidney Croog. 18

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Gerald Caplan Head of the Program Community Mental Health the coming years there is likely to be a radical change, and our move to Harvard Medical School is an early sign of this. The professors of psychiatry who will attend our Visiting Seminar will all be developing programs of research and education in community psychiatry in their own medical schools. I am pleased that our move will be effected with a minimum of upset in the educa¬ tional program in community mental health at the School of Public Health. The new developments increase rather than reduce the need of public health workers to learn about problems of the prevention and control of mental disorders. Dean Snyder has announced that Harvard School of Public Health will encourage cross registration of its students in courses in the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry. The Laboratory course schedule will be arranged so as to facilitate H. S. P. H. students taking elective courses with us in topics such as the theory and practice of preventive psychiatry, strategies of community mental health research, group and community processes, and administrative problems in community psychiatry. In addition, I and members of my staff will continue to participate on a sessional basis in the teaching of regular courses in such Harvard School of Public Health Departments as Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health, Public Health Practice, and Industrial Hygiene. We hope these and other measures will lead to a full collaborative partnership between us to the mutual benefit of our students and of our research and teaching programs. 17 Gerald Caplan Head of the Program

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sANITAR Y ENGINEERING J. Carrell Morris Acting Head of the Department of Sanitary Engineering 19