Public health then and now : celebrating 50 years of MMWR at CDC
"This supplement of MMWR celebrates the 50th anniversary of CDC's first publication of MMWR on January 13, 1961. MMWR was not new in 1961, but it was new to CDC, an agency that itself had been founded only 15 years earlier, in 1946. The longer history of MMWR traces back to July 13, 1878, when the first predecessor of MMWR, called simply The Bulletin of the Public Health, was inaugurated. The Bulletin was established in accordance with the first National Quarantine Act, passed by Congress 2 months earlier. The Act ordered the Surgeon General of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service to begin publishing abstracted disease reports collected from U.S. consuls in foreign lands to alert U.S. quarantine officials about what diseases could be expected among passengers arriving on steamships. In the 83 years from 1878 to 1961, MMWR went through several incarnations. By 1952, the publication had its current name and was being published by the National Office of Vital Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1960, CDC's renowned chief of epidemiology, Alexander D. Langmuir, decided that MMWR should be transferred to CDC (then known as the Communicable Disease Center). After much discussion, and as Langmuir later said in an interview, 'all sorts of pulling out teeth by the roots without anesthesia and all kinds of internal frictions, ' in 1960, MMWR was transferred to CDC."--Page 2
Print Book, English, 2011
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [Atlanta, GA], 2011
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, v. 60, suppl
120 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
756044361
Foreword
Introduction
A History of MMWR
The cornerstone of public health practice: public health surveillance, 1961-2011
Evolution of epidemic investigations and field epidemiology during the MMWR era at CDC
1961-2011
Laboratory contributions to public health
History of statistics in public health at CDC, 1960-2010: the rise of statistical evidence
Changing methods of NCHS surveys: 1960-2010 and beyond
Vaccine-preventable diseases, immunizations, and MMWR
1961-2011
Control of health-care-associated infections, 1961-2011
AIDS: the early years and CDC's response
Fifty years of progress in chronic disease epidemiology and control
Injury prevention, violence prevention, and trauma care: building the scientific base
Environmental health in MMWR
1961-2010
Occupational epidemiology and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Trends in global health and CDC's international role, 1961-2011
Advice to a modern-day Rip Van Winkle: changes in state and local public health practice during the MMWR era at CDC
"October 7, 2011."
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