Background
Winslow was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), obtaining a Bachelor of Surgery in 1898 and an Master of Surgery in 1910.
Winslow was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), obtaining a Bachelor of Surgery in 1898 and an Master of Surgery in 1910.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He began his career as a bacteriologist. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while heading the sewage experiment station from 1908 to 1910, then taught at the College of the City of New York from 1910 to 1914. With Samuel Cate Prescott he published the first American textbook on the elements of water bacteriology.
In 1915 he founded the Yale Department of Public Health within the Yale Medical School, and he was professor and chairman of the Department until he retired in 1945.
(The Department became the Yale School of Public Health after accreditation was introduced in 1947) During a time dominated by discoveries in bacteriology, he emphasized a broader perspective on causation, adopting a more holistic perspective. The department under his direction was a catalyst for health reform in Connecticut.
He was the first director of Yale"s J.B. Pierce Laboratory, serving from 1932 to 1957. Winslow was also instrumental in founding the Yale School of Nursing.
He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bacteriology, serving in that position from 1916 to 1944.
He was also editor of the American Journal of Public Health from 1944 to 1954. He was curator of public health at the American Museum of Natural History from 1910 to 1922. In 1926 he became president of the American Public Health Association, and in the 1950s was a consultant to the World Health Organization.
The is the highest award of professional achievement bestowed to a public health professional in Connecticut. Each year the award recognizes a Connecticut public health professional for achievement and leadership in public health practice, research and education and is presented at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Public Health Association. Doctor Katherine Kelley, chief of the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s laboratory, was the 2007 recipient of the Award. Ruth Nelson Knollmueller received the Award in 2006 recognizing her contribution to public health and public health nursing The Director of Health for Stratford, Elaine O"Keefe, received the 2003 Award recognizing her outstanding contributions to the field of public health. Doctor Leonard F. Menczer, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Master in Public Health received the award in 1965 for his outstanding contributions to the field of public health in his capacity as the City of Hartford"s Director of Dental Health. Professor Ira V. Hiscock, Doctor of Science., chairman, department of public health, Yale University was presented the Award in 1957. In 1896, he translated, from German, « Heimat », a play in four acts by Hermann Sudermann, renamed « Magda » and played by Henry Stephenson and Charles Waldron in a Broadway theatre production in New York City, New New York
He was the youngest charter member of the Society of American Bacteriologists when that organization was founded in 1899.
