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Federal Emergency Management Agency Photo Library, Convoy of Hope, Federal Emergency Management Agency, May 9 2005

Convoy of Hope has a cache of baby supplies ready to be shipped to victims of hurricane Katrina.

Convoy of Hope is a nonprofit organization that…

Tags: Baby Supplies, Convoy of Hope, Disaster Relief, Groceries, Health, Missouri, Nonprofits, United States

Save the Children, Save the Children 1932-2012, Save the Children, 2008

Creating lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need in the United States and around the world. Quotation from: Save the Children Save…

Tags: Childhood, Children, Health, Public Health, Save the Children, STC, United States

David Battle, Peace Corps Volunteers, Peace Corps, 1972

The initial reactions to the Peace Corps proposal are convincing proof that we have, in this country, an immense reservoir of such men and…

Tags: AIDS, Community, Education, Health, JFK, Peace, Peace Corps, United States, Volunteerism

The American Red Cross, Volunteer for Red Cross Motor Corps, National Archives, 1941-1945

Posters such as these were created by the American Red Cross to recruit volunteers during wartime.

The Motor Corps consisted of 45,000 women who…

Tags: American Red Cross, Health, Motor Corps, Volunteerism, War, Women

YMCA, The Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), YMCA, 1881 - Present

The Young Men's Christian Association (commonly known as YMCA) is a worldwide organisation with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national…

Tags: Christian, Community, Empowerment, Health, Nonprofits, YMCA

Fund for the City of New York, Donna Leno Gordon - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner, Fund for the City of New York, 2012

In her over two decades of service at Coney Island Hospital, Donna Leno Gordon has been a pioneer in the field of palliative care, the branch of…

Tags: Awards, Donna Leno Gordon, Health, Healthcare, Medicine, Pain Management, Palliative Care, Sloan Public Service

Boston University, Lisa J. Messersmith, Ph.D. - U.S. Public Health Researcher, Boston University, 2011

An American public health researcher helped shape AIDS law in Vietnam: Lisa J. Messersmith, Ph.D. Messersmith moved to Vietnam in 1998 to serve as…

Tags: AIDS, AIDS Prevention, Health, Lisa J. Messersmith, Public Health, Vietnam

National Archives & National Library of Medicine, Public Health Posters, National Archives & National Library of Medicine, 1944 - First Picture, 1940s - Second Picture

In midcentury, public health groups took cues from the advertising industry to warn of various health risks. A retrospective of 20th-century health…

Tags: Advertising, Diseases, Flies, Health, Posters, Public Health, Syphilis

Bain News Service, Stephen Smith, Founder of the American Public Health Association, Library of Congress, 1-Jan-14

Stephen Smith, a physician and attorney, served on the New York City's Metropolitan Health Board and founded the American Public Health Association in…

Tags: APHA, Health, Healthcare, Public Health, Stephen Smith

National Library of Medicine/Mullick, Biman, Tobacco or Health: Choose Health, National Library of Medicine, 1988

The headline in this poster presents a choice between tobacco and health, while an abstraction of a human head chooses flowers over a cigarette.
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Tags: Health, Public Health, Tobacco, WHO, World Health Organization