AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Feb 28, 2008
April 2008, Vol 98, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 628-629
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.129304
John B. Grant International Statesman of Public Health
Liping Bu, PhD and
Elizabeth Fee, PhD
Liping Bu is with the Department of History, Alma College, Alma, Mich. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to: Liping Bu, Department of History, Alma College, 614 West Superior St, Alma, MI (e-mail: bulipi@alma.edu).
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JOHN B. GRANT WAS BORN to Canadian medical missionaries in Ningbo, China, in 1890. He graduated from Acadia College in Nova Scotia in 1912 and received his medical education at University of Michigan and his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University. He would later often refer to Arthur Newsholme and Victor C. Vaughan (his professors in public health), together with George Newman, as the men who had most influenced his thinking about public health.1 Grant joined the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1918 and gained practical experience in a county health program in North Carolina. . . . [Full Text]
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