Harvard Public Health Review, 75th Anniversary Issue, Vol. I, 1954-1971

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HE S U M M E R OF 1 9 5 4

brings the televised spectacle of Senator

Joseph McCarthy's hearings on un-American activities, deepening U.S. concern about communist expansion in Southeast Asia, and the launch of the brilliantly successful nationwide polio immunization campaign. The American Zeitgeist combines patriotic fervor and Cold War anxiety with an almost limitless faith in the ability of government and technology to resolve societal ills. By 1 9 6 7 , U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart boldly predicts imminent victory over all infectious diseases. Under Dean John Crayton Snyder, the Harvard School of Public Health rides this wave of public confidence and federal funding to new levels of prominence and success, adding faculty, buildings, and departments. By 1 9 7 0 , the School's enrollment has reached 1 7 0 , more than 10-times the enrollment when the School was founded, and graduates occupy key positions in the Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization, and in governments worldwide.

Expansion and Gtobatization


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