Perspectives on Global Health
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First, let me thank Dr. Koplan for the invitation to give this lecture dedicated to Dr. Joseph Mountin. One cannot read Dr. Mountin’s work and resist using the term visionary. He was clearly committed to excellence and showed this not only in his work in creating the centers, that were the forerunner of this institution, but in his writings on such things as the evaluation of sanitary services. Dr. Mountin’s focus was essentially national, perhaps even more local, and he saw much to be gained from excellence in sanitary services devoted to the control of communicable diseases at that level. It is not clear to me that he saw any mandate for his centers of excellence in global health, because that was not the line of thinking that informed discussion or debate on measures for caring for the public’s health in his day.
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