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Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Expecting? Get the Right Advice from the Right Sources, Library of Congress, September 2nd, 1938

Posters from the Works Progress Administration often focused on public health. This poster focuses on infant care, which was a particularly popular…

Tags: FDR, Federal Arts Project, Infant Care, Posters, Public Health, WPA

CDC, Government Reporting Chain: NARMS, CDC, No date

The federal government established the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) in 1996 as a national public…

Tags: Antibiotic Resistance, CDC, FDA, Health, NARMS, Public Health, USDA

U.S. Government, Great Seal of the United States, U.S. Government, Basic design - 1782

The United States Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This act is related…

Tags: Drugs, FDA, Food, Modernization Act, Public Health

Melvin Baker, Jeffrey Wigand, Tobacco Industry Whistleblower, Melvin Baker, 2006

Jeffrey Wigand, the one-time tobacco executive, is now known synonymously with the term "whistleblower". When he realized how his company, Brown &…

Tags: Consumer Protection, Jeffrey Wigand, Public Health, Tobacco, Whistleblower

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

U.S. Postal Service, Mary Breckinridge, Nurse, The Smithsonian National Postal Museum , 1998

Mary Breckinridge was an American nurse-midwife and the founder of the New Model of Rural Health Care & Frontier Nursing Service. She started family…

Tags: Healthcare, Mary Breckinridge, Nursing, Public Health, Rural Healthcare

The Straus Historical Society, Nathan Straus: Milk Depot, The Straus Historical Society, 1893

After the Civil War, there was some recognition that the quality of the milk sold to the city's poor was substandard. Small, but unsuccessful, efforts…

Tags: Anti-Poverty, Health, Milk, Milk Depot, Nathan Straus, Public Health, Straus Family

The Straus Historical Society, Nathan Straus: New York City Board of Health, The Straus Historical Society, Circa 1900s

In 1897, Nathan Straus (1848-1931) became the President and Commissioner of the New York City Board of Health for a two year term. Nathan took his…

Tags: Board of Health, Life Lines, Nathan Straus, NYC, Public Health, Straus Family

Images from the History of Medicine (NLM); Center for Disease Control, Parents of Earth, Are Your Children Fully Immunized?, Center for Disease Control, ca. 1977

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in partnership with the Center for Disease Control, issued this poster to gently remind parents to…

Tags: CDC, Disease, DOH, Public Health, Vaccinations, Vaccines

CDC/ Mary Hilpertshauser, Polio Campaign, 1963, CDC, 1963

In 1961, oral polio vaccine (OPV) was invented by Dr Albert Sabin and introduced in the US. Sabin’s strategy was to give trivalent OPV to all children…

Tags: Albert Sabin, Campaign, Health, OPV, Polio, Public Health