Background
Poindexter, Hildrus Augustus was born on May 10, 1901 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Poindexter, Hildrus Augustus was born on May 10, 1901 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
AB cum laude, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1924. Doctor of Science, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1946. Doctor of Medicine, Dartmouth-Harvard, 1929.
A.M., Columbia, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy in Pure Science, Columbia, 1932. Master of Science in Public Health, Columbia, 1937.
Doctor of Science, Dartmouth College, 1956. Doctor of Science, Howard University, 1961. Doctor of Science, University Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1982.
In 1929. He received an Master of Public Health in public health and tropical medicine from Harvard in 1932. Doctor Poindexter became the head of the Medical College at Howard University in 1936. He entered military service in 1943 and had a very distinguished career as an expert on Malaria and other tropical diseases.
His military service included serving as a commissioned officer in the United States. Public Health Service (United States Public Health Service).
In 1947, Senior Surgeon Poindexter was appointed posted to the Mission to Liberia as chief of laboratory and medical research in West Africa. The goal of the misson was to help the Liberian government in sanitation planning and the control of infectious diseases.
He became director in 1948. In 1953 he was transferred to Indochina and he went on to serve in various other places such as Vietnam, Surinam, Iraq, Libya, and Sierra Leone before briefly returning to the faculty of Howard University.
Poindexter published his autobiography, My World Of Reality, in 1973 in which he candidly discusses his various life experiences including dealings with racial prejudice.
Board directors National Finance & Investment Corporation Washington. Trustee Lincoln University Served from major to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1943-1947. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association (chairman international health section, Edward W. Browning Achievement award 1973), American Medical Association, American Foundation Tropical Medicine, American Society Tropical Medicine, American Society Parasitology, American Society Protozoologists, Society of America Bacteriologists, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Son of Fred and Luvenia (Clarke) P. M. Ruth Viola Grier, June 11, 1924. 1 daughter, Patchechole B.B.