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November 2004, Vol 94, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1851-1853
© 2004 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

A Role for Public Health History

Theodore M. Brown, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Theodore M. Brown is with the Department of History and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Mixed in with the rich and varied articles on global health themes in this issue of the Journal are 6 articles based on historical research. Five of the articles originated in the History Working Group of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) "Human Resources for Health and Development," a major international policy and planning initiative undertaken by the Rockefeller Foundation and several partners.1 The sixth, by Didier Fassin and Anne-Jeanne Naudé, was submitted independently but fits here nicely along with the other historical articles.2

The purpose of the History Working Group was to contribute to the JLI’s overall objectives by critically . . . [Full Text]






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