1. James Lind and scurvy 2. Edward Jenner and smallpox 3. Peter Panum on measles 4. Semmelweiss, Nightingale, Lister and hygiene 5. John Snow and the Broad Street Pump6. Louis Pasteur and microbes7. Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich and magic bullets8. Bismarck, Semashko, Beveridge, universal health 9. Joseph Goldberger on pellagra10. Marine, Cowie and Hetzel on preventing iodine deficiency 11. Elmer McCollum and vitamin D 12. Norman Gregg and congenital rubella syndrome13. Ethics, Eugenics, Nuremberg, Helsinki, and public health 14. Framingham, North Karelia, MONICA on CVD 15. Roemer’s Law 16. Enders, Salk, Sabin and eradication of polio 17. Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB) 18. Thalassemia eradication in Cyprus 19. Maurice Hilleman and vaccines 20. Robert Guthrie and Nicholas Wald on birth defects21. Marc Lalonde and health promotion 22. Warren and Marshal on Helicobacter pylori
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Theodore H. Tulchinsky (MD 1961 from the University of Toronto; MPH
degree 1968 from Yale University). He participated in the
introduction of universal health insurance in Saskatchewan
(1962-66) and served as Deputy Minister of Health and Social
Development in the Province of Manitoba, Canada (1972-76). After
moving to Israel in 1976, he served as Director of Public Health in
the Ministry of Health in Israel, then Coordinator for Health and
Supervisor of Health in the West Bank and Gaza (1981-2014) with a
focus on sanitation, immunization, nutrition, and primary care for
maternal and child health especially. He taught in the
International MPH program at the Braun School of Public Health at
the Hebrew University from 1981 to 2016. He was a visiting
consultant to the New York State Department of Health in the 1980s
on community health worker programs and other topics as a Fulbright
Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health (1997-98). Ted led in
developing a community health worker program for 11 low income
housing projects in Los Angeles county; the program expanded during
the COVID pandemic.
Ted has published 110 articles in peer reviewed professional
journals, and a number of book chapters on public health topics
including polio, measles, tetanus, water borne diseases,
immunization, nutrition, and environmental health. He has been
active between 2000 and 2018 in promoting new schools of public
health in former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, the former
Soviet Union and Central Asia, served on the Executive Board of the
European Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPHER). He is
lead author on the textbook The New Public Health (three editions
in 1999, 2005, 2014); NPH has been translated and published in
Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldovan, Romanian, Mongolian,
Georgian, and Turkish languages. Ted was awarded the Andrija
Stampar Medal in 2008 for "excellence in promoting public health
education in Europe, and was Deputy Editor of Public Health
Reviews from 2010 to 2017. Ted published Case Studies in Public
Health in 2018. Between 2010-2018, he led in development of
Israel’s first bachelor degree program at Ashkelon College, as well
as in developing an Erasmus funded project of cooperation between
Israeli and European schools of public health.
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