Lecture 1

Question 1

Noah Webster

Answer 1

• Authored “History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases” and dictionary
• One of the country’s first epidemiologists
• West Hartford native and Yale alumnus

Question 2

Charles A Lindsley

Answer 2

• Dean of Yale medical school
• reorganized city’s board of health and served as health director
• secretary of connecticut state board of health and president of APHA

Question 3

CEA Winslow

Answer 3

• Yale’s first chair of public health
• wrote nearly 600 books/articles
• editor for several journals

Question 4

Helen Robertson Gage

Answer 4

• first woman to graduate with yale MPH and DrPH
• thesis: history of influenza epidemics to 1889
• served as health officer in Suffield CT

Question 5

John Rodman Paul

Answer 5

• assistant professor of medicine at yale 1928
• established yale poliomyelitis study unit in 1931

Question 6

Dorothy Horstmann

Answer 6

• demonstrated poliovirus reached the nervous system through blood
• first female full professor at yale

Question 7

Frank Black

Answer 7

• third scientist in the world to use the measles vaccines in humans
• served as head of division of microbio in YSPH (EMD precursor)

Question 8

Wilber G Downs

Answer 8

• Downs fellowship
• moved rockefeller foundation virus laboratory to YSPH
• first director of arbovirus research unit

Question 9

Robert Shope

Answer 9

• Yale arbovirus research unit 1964-1994

Question 10

Jordi Casals-Ariet and Sonja Buckley

Answer 10

• isolated Lassa Fever Virus
• Casals-Ariet fell ill

Question 11

Alfred Evans

Answer 11

• investigated role of Epstein-Barr virus
• Yale 1966-1994
• epidemiology definition

Question 12

LEPH

Answer 12

• completed in 1964
• funds from Rockefeller foundation
• architect Philip Johnson

Question 13

Stephen Malawista and Allen Steere

Answer 13

• 1975, cluster of cases
• Characterized Lyme

Question 14

Scott O’Neill

Answer 14

• Wolbachia
• founded world mosquito program in australia

Question 15

Peter Hotez

Answer 15

• Pediatric ID fellowship and lab at LEPH
• Hookworm pathogenesis

Question 16

Joshua Lederberg

Answer 16

• discovered recombination
• received doctorate at yale

Question 17

Walsh McDermott

Answer 17

• Use AB responsibly
• Helped deploy penicillin to civilian use

Question 18

Selman Waksman

Answer 18

• discovered actinomycin in the soil
• coined phrase antibiotics
• ethical use of ABs