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April 2008, Vol 98, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 585
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.134569


EDITOR'S CHOICE

Celebrating the World Health Organization

Theodore M. Brown, PHD, Department Editor, AJPH

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Figure 1
On April 7, 2008, World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) will mark its 60th anniversary. What better occasion to celebrate WHO’s major contributions to international and global health? Several items in this issue relate to this celebratory theme. Fitzgerald, for example, indirectly underscores WHO’s critical role in monitoring international weapons conventions in his gripping essay on the history of chemical warfare. Bu et al.’s Voices From the Past offering focuses on a selection from John B. Grant’s presentation to a 1951 WHO staff meeting, which provides important historical insights into the organization’s longstanding interest in the most effective . . . [Full Text]







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