Fred Soper

Life

Fred Lowe Soper was the third of eight children of the spouses Socrates and Mary Ann Soper to the world. He studied medicine at Rush Medical College and went after his graduation in 1918 for 27 years for the Rockefeller Foundation.

As of January 1920, Soper active in the fight against hookworm in Brazil. With minor interruptions, he led this activity continued until 1927, and a well in Paraguay. Between 1927 and 1942 he was involved in the fight against yellow fever and malaria. One of his greatest achievements was the eradication of Anopheles gambiae in Brazil. In the years 1942-1946 he was involved in the fight against typhoid within the U.S. Army, first in North Africa and later in Europe. Between 1947 and 1959 he was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. By 1972 he was in Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as for the Public Health Service, active as a consultant.

Publications (selection)

• Ventures in world health: the memoirs of Fred Lowe Soper. Washington, Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 1977.
• J. Austin Kerr ( ed.): Building the health bridge: selections from the work of Fred L. Soper. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1970.
• Fred. L. Soper, D. Bruce Wilson, Servulo Lima and Waldemar Sá Antunes: The organization of permanent nation -wide anti- Aedes aegypti measures in Brazil. New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1943.
• Fred L. Soper and D. Bruce Wilson: Anopheles gambiae in Brazil: 1930 to 1940 New York, Rockefeller Foundation, 1943..