Dr. Thomas Parran : the graduate school of public health

Year Published: 1959

Creator: WQED Dr. Thomas Parran Adolph Schmidt Roger James Crabtree Emory Bacon

Format: 16mm

Description: Dr. Parran discusses the problems involved in setting up a graduate school of public health. After World War II, the AW Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust sought an opportunity to aid public health. The decision was made to form a graduate school of public health at the University of Pittsburgh, containing facilities to train students, a research center, and a free outpatient clinic for welfare cases. Dr. Parran talks of his problems in setting up the school, forming a faculty, settling problems arising from conflicting philosophies, and other facets of establishing the school.

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