Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Charles- Edward Amory Winslow ( born February 4, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 8, 1957 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American bacteriologist and an expert on public health.
Life and work
Charles- Edward Amory Winslow was born on February 4, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was in 1908 and 1910, Bachelor Master of Science. During his studies he worked at MIT as a bacteriologist and met Anne Fuller Rogers, whom he married in 1907. Between 1908 and 1910 he conducted research on bacteria in wastewater and then moved to teach there at the City College of New York. From 1910 to 1922 he was curator of Public Health at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1926 he became president of the American Public Health Association (APHA ), and in the 1950s, consultant to the World Health Organization.
As in 1899, the Society of American Bacteriologists was founded, Winslow became the youngest member of the organization. In 1915 he founded the Yale Department of Public Health at the Yale Medical School, Yale University. Here he was until 1945 Professor.
Winslow was the first editor of the Journal of Bacteriology and has held this position from 1916 to 1944. From 1944 to 1954 he was editor of the Journal of Public Health.
Works
Winslow donating over 600 articles and several books on bacteriology, public health and other topics. His most important works include:
- The Evolution and Significance of the Modern Public Health Campaign ( 1923)
- The Conquest of Epidemic Disease (1943 )
- The History of American Epidemiology (1952 )