Alonzo Smythe Yerby

Background

Yerby, Alonzo Smythe was born on October 15, 1921 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Son of Rufus Garvin and Wilhelmina Ethlyn (Smythe) Yerby.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1941; Doctor of Medicine Meharry Medical College, 1946; Master of Public Health, Harvard, 1948.

Career

Intern, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn resident in preventive medicine, Health Insurance Plan New York, 1950-1953; executive director medical services, New York City Department Health medical welfare administrator, New York City Department Welfare, 1960-1965; commissioner of hospitals, New York City, 1965-1966; professor health services administration, Harvard School Public Health, Boston, 1966-1982; deputy assistant secretary health for intergovernmental affairs, Department Health and Human Services, Washington, 1980-1981; professor, director division health services administration, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland., 1982-1996. Consultant Bureau Family Services, National Center Health Services Research, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, World Health Organization. Member National Advisory Commision on Health Manpower, 1966-1967, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Advisory Committee on Relationships with State Health Agilysys, 1963-1966, National Professional Standards Review Council, 1978-1980.

Visiting scientist United States of America-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Exchange Program, 1967, 79.

Achievements

• Alonzo Smythe Yerby has been listed as a noteworthy Health services administrator, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Community medicine in England and Scotland : an evolving specialty and its relationship to the reorganization of the National Health Service

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Public Health Association. Member American College Preventive Medicine, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, New York Academy Medicine.

Clubs: Harvard (New York City).

Connections

Married Monteal Monica May, September 17, 1943. Children– Mark, Lynne, Kristen.

Father:

Rufus Garvin Yerby

Mother:

Wilhelmina Ethlyn (Smythe) Yerby

Spouse:

Monteal Monica May

child:

Kristen Yerby

child:

Lynne Yerby

child:

Mark Yerby