RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

60 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
sanitary inspectors and which is making plans
for further rapid development. The success of
this institution will, in the long run, determine
the degree of perfection in public health operations
throughout Turkey. The first full year of
unbroken activity at the health center in Istanbul,
toward which the Foundation is contributing,
came to a successful close in 1935. It is
proposed to use some of the nurses who graduated
in the spring in developing public health
nursing at Ankara.
Public Health Fellowships
An important part of Foundation activities in
the field of public health consists of the administration
of an extensive fellowship program. Fellowships
are granted for the purpose of meeting
definite needs in public health service. They are
given only to persons carefully selected for specific
work and only with the understanding that
the recipients, on the completion of their training,
shall be appointed to pivotal positions in the
health services of their own countries. Experience
has shown that from the men whohavebenefited by
these fellowships are recruited many of the leaders
in public health work throughout the world.
During 1935 the Foundation
directed the
studies of 188 men and women to whom it had
granted fellowships in public health. The follow-
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