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Ex-chief of the Communicable Disease Center of the United States Public Health Service
Robert J. Anderson
(1914 ? July 24, 1999) was the chief of the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) of the
United States Public Health Service
, forerunner to the modern
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
, from October 1, 1956, to June 30, 1960.
[1]
[2]
Anderson was born in
Zumbrota
,
Minnesota
, graduated from
Carleton College
, and attended medical school at the
University of Minnesota
. After medical school he joined the
Public Health Service
. As an
intern
he worked at the
Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital
, including a stint in the
venereal disease
unit during
World War II
alongside
John Friend Mahoney
.
[2]
After studying
public health
at
Columbia University
under a
Rockefeller fellowship
, Anderson worked on
tuberculosis
control. In 1947 he became the chief of the Tuberculosis Control program at the Public Health Service. He left the tuberculosis program in 1956 to become head of the Communicable Disease Center. At the CDC, Anderson oversaw the building of the
Atlanta
campus.
[2]
After the CDC, Anderson returned to
Washington, DC
and worked on
environmental health
, including as Chief of the
Bureau of State Services
.
[3]
He retired from the Public Health Service in 1966. After retirement, he served as medical director of the
American Thoracic Society
and (from 1970 to 1974) managing director of a forerunner to the
American Lung Association
.
[4]
[2]
Anderson died of an
aortic aneurysm
on July 24, 1999, at his home in
Arlington, Virginia
, at the age of 85.
[4]
Selected works
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References
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- ^
"Past CDC Directors/Administrators | About | CDC"
.
www.cdc.gov
. July 20, 2018
. Retrieved
April 15,
2020
.
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a
b
c
d
Watson, William; Anderson, Robert J. (September 25, 1984).
Robert J. Anderson, interviewed by Bill Watson
(Video)
. Retrieved
May 3,
2020
.
Transcript
.
- ^
"Annual Report, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1963"
. Retrieved
September 16,
2020
– via HathiTrust.
- ^
a
b
"Robert Anderson, 85, Dies"
.
The Washington Post
. August 3, 1999
. Retrieved
May 3,
2020
.