Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (February 4, 1877 – January 8, 1957) was an American

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and

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expert who was, according to the ''Encyclopedia of Public Health'',"Winslow, Charles-Edward Amory.", ''

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'', Ed.

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, Gale Group, Inc., 2002. eNotes. com. 2006, 24 March 2008 "a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world." Winslow was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended

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(M.I.T.), obtaining a B.S. in 1898 and an M.S. in 1910. He began his career as a bacteriologist. He met Anne Fuller Rogers when they were students in

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's laboratory at M.I.T., and married her in 1907. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while heading the sewage experiment station from 1908 to 1910, then taught at the College of the City of New York from 1910 to 1914. He was the youngest charter member of the

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when that organization was founded in 1899. With

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he published the first American textbook on the elements of water bacteriology. In 1915 he founded the

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Department of Public Health within the

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, and he was professor and chairman of the Department until he retired in 1945. (The Department became the Yale School of Public Health after accreditation was introduced in 1947.) During a time dominated by discoveries in bacteriology, he emphasized a broader perspective on causation, adopting a more holistic perspective. The department under his direction was a catalyst for health reform in Connecticut. He was the first director of Yale's J.B. Pierce Laboratory, serving from 1932 to 1957. Winslow was also instrumental in founding the

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. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the ''

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'', serving in that position from 1916 to 1944. He was also the editor of the ''

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'' from 1944 to 1954. He was the curator of public health at the American Museum of Natural History from 1910 to 1922. In 1926 he became president of the American Public Health Association, and in the 1950s was a consultant to the

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CEA Winslow Award

The C.-E.A. Winslow Award is presented to a public health professional that has demonstrated leadership and achievement in practice, research and /or education. The award commemorates Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877-1957), a pioneer in public health and medicine, who is credited with founding the second oldest school of public health in the country at Yale University. Among the most widely quoted health leaders during his lifetime, Dr. Winslow believed that equal in weight with scientific ideas about health and disease was a commitment to social justice – that social ills must be the first conquest in the "conquest of epidemic disease.” C.-E.A Winslow Award Recipients (1955-2015) *1955 - Friend Lee Mickle *1956 - CT PH Nursing Agencies Board *1957 - Ira V. Hiscock and Stanley H. Osborn *1958 - Elizabeth Gordon Fox *1959 - M. Allen Pond *1960 - Alfred Burgdorf *1961 - John R. Paul *1962 - Hazel V. Dudley *1963 - Martha Clifford *1964 - Louis J. Dumont *1965 - Leonard F. Menczer *1966 - Warren J. Scott *1967 - Franklin M. Foote *1968 - Edward M. Cohart *1969 - Leonard Parente *1970 - Wilbur Johnston *1971 - Florence Austin *1972 - Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse *1973 - Edwin Meiss *1974 - James Hart *1975 - Barbara Christine *1976 - Adrian Ostfield *1977 - Estelle Siker *1978 - Fred Adams *1979 - J. Wister Meigs *1981 - Robert W. McCollum *1984 - I. S. Falk *1985 - George Silver *1986 - Ralph Gofstein *1987 - Alvin Novik *1988 - Martha Leonard *1989 - Elizabeth Bellis *1990 - Ruth Abbott *1991 - Roslyn U. Fishman *1992 - John Glasgow *1994 - Susan Addiss *1995 - James F. Jekel *1996 - Virginia S. Humphrey *1997 - James L. Hadler *1998 - Cornell Scott/Katrina Clark *1999 - Holger Hansen *2000 - Richard F. Straub *2001 - Marge Nelligan *2002 - Alfreda Turner *2003 - Elaine O'Keefe *2004 - Paul M. Shur *2005 - Joan Segal *2006 - Ruth N. Knollmueller *2007 - Katherine A. Kelley *2008 - Elaine Anderson *2009 - Michael J. Perlin *2010 - Baker Salsbury *2011 - Shelley Diehl Geballe *2012 - Patricia J. Checko *2014 - William G. Faraclas *2015 - Jeannette Ickovics *2016 - Debbie Humphries *2017 - Jennifer Kertanis

CEA Winslow The Translator

In 1896, he translated, from German, «

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», a play in four acts by

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, renamed « Magda » and played by

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and

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in a

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production in

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Monographs

Winslow wrote nearly 600 articles and books on bacteriology, public health, sanitation, and health care administration. Among the more significant are: *''The Evolution and Significance of the Modern Public Health Campaign'' (1923) *''The Conquest of Epidemic Disease'' (1943) *''The History of American Epidemiology'' (1952).

References

External links

* Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers (MS 749). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

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