Public Health People

Charles Winslow

Public Health is a science and art

ADL’s

Bathing, dressing

IADL’s

Using telephone, shopping

William Harvey

First to suggest humans and mammals reproduced via egg and sperm. Also did dissections.

Edward Jenners

Cowpox experiment. Coined term vaccine

John Snow

Pioneered modern epidemiology by mapping cholera cases in London in drinking fountains.

Edwin Chadwick

Public health England reformer who wrote the report on sanitary conditions and disease spread.

Lemuel Shattuck

was an early advocate for public health in the United States, known for his pioneering work in health statistics and the establishment of health departments.

Louis Pasteur

germs caused many diseases, first public health lab, Pasturization

Robert Koch

Identified the pathogens causing tuberculosis and cholera.