Helen Margaret Wallace

Background

Wallace, Helen Margaret was born on February 18, 1913 in Hoosick Falls, New York, United States. Daughter of Jonas and Ray (Schweizer) Wallace.

Education

AB, Wellesley College, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1937. Master in Public Health cum laude, Harvard University, 1943.

Career

Intern Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1938-1940. Child hygiene physician Connecticut Health Department, 1941-1942. Successively junior health officer, health officer, chief maternity and newborn division, director bureau for handicapped children New York City Health Department, 1943-1955.

Professor, director department public health New York Medical College, 1955-1956. Professor maternal and child health University Minnesota School Public Health, 1956-1959. Chief professional training United States Children's Bureau, 1959-1960, chief child health studies, 1961-1962.

Professor maternal and child health University California School Public Health, Berkeley, California, 1962-1980, 99. Professor, head division maternal and child health School Public Health San Diego State University, since 1980. University Research lecturer San Diego State University, since 1985.

Consultant World Health Organization numerous locations, including Uganda, The Philippines, Turkey, India, Geneva, Iran, Burma, Sri Lanka, East Africa, Australia, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, since 1961, traveling fellow, since 1989. Consultant Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, 1993, Ford Foundation, Colombia, 1971. United Nations consultant to Health Bureau, Beijing, China, 1987.

Fellow Aiiku Institute on Maternal and Child Health, Tokyo, and National Institutes of Health Institute Child Health and Human Development, 1994. Director Family Planning Project, Zimbabwe, 1984-1987. Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1999, 00, professor emeritus, since 2000.

Member advisory committee, faculty American Public Health Association Committee on Continuing Education.

Achievements

• Helen Margaret Wallace has been listed as a noteworthy pediatrician, physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Health And Welfare For Families In The 21St Century

    (2003 AJN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER! In Health and Wel...)

  • Health and Welfare for Families in the 21st Century (Jones and Bartlett Series in Nursing)

    (Analyzes the revolutionizing effect of changes occurring ...)

  • Health And Welfare For Families In The 21St Century by Helen M. Wallace, Gordon Green, Kenneth J. Jaros Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2003 (Paperback) 2nd Edition Paperback

    (Health And Welfare For Families In The 21St Century by He...)

  • Health And Welfare For Families In The 21St Century 2nd edition by Helen M. Wallace, Gordon Green, Kenneth J. Jaros (2003) Paperback
  • (Health and Welfare for Families in the 21st Century) Author: Helen M. Wallace published on (April, 2003)

Membership

Member council on Disabled Children to Media, 1991. Director San Diego County Infant Mortality Study, since 1989, San Diego Study of Prenatal Care, 1991. Fellow: American Public Health Association (officer section, chairman committee on international maternal and child health, member faculty and advisory committee maternal and child health program 2000, Martha May Eliot award 1978, award in International Maternal and Child Health 2001), American Academy Pediatrics (Job Smith award 1980).

Member: American Medical Association, American School Preventive Medicine, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, American Academy Cerebral Palsy, Association Teachers Maternal and Child Health.

Connections

Father:

Jonas Wallace

Mother:

Ray (Schweizer) Wallace