Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a Towering Public Health Leader

Dr. Humayun Chaudhry: A Public Health Policy Advocate

executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) of the United States. The FSMB, which operates the Federation Credentialing Verification Service (FCVS) and cosponsors the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), was founded in 1912 and is the national not-for-profit organization for the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories. Dr. Chaudhry, 44, i...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Dr. Abolghasem Bahrami (1894–1950): Physician, Pasteurian, and a Pioneer of Microbiology and Public Health Planning in Iran

Dr. Abolghasem Bahrami was among the generation of Iranian scientists in the early twentieth century who gained most of their knowledge through resources available inside the country. Educated at Dar-ul-Funun Medical School, he was a physician with a great talent in learning, especially self-teaching natural sciences and European languages. He joined the Pasteur Institute of Iran (IPI) at the e...

Challenges for Public Health Nutrition are immense--to be a good public health nutrition leader requires networking and collaboration.

Dr. H. M. Crake

IT is with the deepest regret that we have learnt of the recent death at Home of Dr. H. M. Crake, Health Officer to the Calcutta Corporation. " Like many other medical men, Dr. Crake knew that he was engaged in a war with conditions that he could not hope to see swept away in his lifetime" remarks the Statesman. " Religious and social forms were all the time fighting against his desire to bring...