Career
Her work in Kentucky drew national recognition, and she joined the United States Children"s Bureau as a research pediatrician, and later moved to the Children"s Bureau"s International Division, before becoming the Chief of the Division of Health Services in the United States Children"s Bureau. Alice Drew was born and raised in Albany, Missouri. In 1924 she graduated from Northwestern University with degree in chemistry.
And continued there to earn a master"s degree at Northwestern in history in 1926.
After graduation, she joined the faculty of a women"s college in Montgomery, Alabama, and taught there for two years. Despite her father concerns about her being a physician, Drew enrolled in medical school, and graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1932.
After completing her medical degree, Drew did a pediatrics internship at Strong Memorial Hospital, the teaching arm of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New New York In 1933 she began a residency at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
Her work in Kentucky drew national recognition, and she joined the United States. Children"s Bureau as a research pediatrician, and later moved to the Children"s Bureau"s International Division.
Eventually, she served as the Chief of the Division of Health Services in the United States Children"s Bureau.
