RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 5!
with a view to adapting the cultured viruses to
various animals which might be useful in the
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laboratory in the study of influenza and the common
cold. These studies, receiving Foundation
support, were conducted under the leadership
of Dr. A. R. Dochez of Columbia University.
Toward the end of the year an allotment of funds
was made for influenza research at the Laboratories
of the International Health Division in
New York City.
Public Health Nursing
Aid for the development of public health nursing
during 1935 was given to centers in Europe,
the Near and Far East, South and Central
America, Canada, and the United States. It included
financial assistance for the establishment
of health
centers, for buildings, endowment,
equipment, maintenance, and personnel of nursing
schools, travel study grants and fellowships,
and investigations and surveys.
An
indispensable condition for Foundation
collaboration with European nursing schools has
been the inclusion of practical public health mlrsing
in the basic undergraduate curriculum. To
effect this end the Foundation has often participated
in the development of health centers
suitable for training fields when such were not
already present, as in Athens, Bucharest, Cleve-
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