Topic: Medicine & Public Health
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Issues in Philanthropy
Timeline: American Foundations and the History of Public Health
Key points in the history of American foundations’ engagement with public health.
Medicine & Public Health
Public Health: How the Fight Against Hookworm Helped Build a System
A hundred years ago, hookworm disease was an epidemic across the US South. Northern philanthropy tried to help.
Medicine & Public Health
Funding a Sexual Revolution: The Kinsey Reports
The inside story of the study that first questioned binary sexuality and spurred outcry and controversy.
1900s
1910s
Photo Essay: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and the American South
Battling hookworm on rural farms laid the groundwork for a global public health system.
1970s
The Commonwealth Fund Brings Hospice Care to America
Care for the dying, not care for a cure, was a new idea in the 1970s.
1910s
1920s
1930s
The Long Road to the Yellow Fever Vaccine
The yellow fever vaccine developed in the 1930s has been used worldwide ever since. Creating it took years and cost several lives. Some thought it would never happen.