Background
Snyder, John Crayton was born on May 24, 1910 in Salt Lake City. Son of Crayton Chambers and Flora (Macdonald) Snyder.
population and public health consultant
Snyder, John Crayton was born on May 24, 1910 in Salt Lake City. Son of Crayton Chambers and Flora (Macdonald) Snyder.
AB, Stanford University, 1931. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1935. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, 1964.
Research fellow in surgery Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1936-1937. Junior fellow Harvard Society Fellows/Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1939-1940. Staff member international health division Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, 1940-1946.
Professor public health bacteriology, head department Harvard School Public Health, Boston, 1946-1954, dean faculty, 1954-1971. Medical director Center for Population Studies Harvard University, 1971-1976, professor emeritus population public health School Public Health, from 1976. Consultant on population policy Pathfinder Fund, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1976-1979, University Associate for International Health, Boston, 1977-1983.
Board directors Emerson Hospital, Concord, Massachusetts, 1980-1985. Chairman expert committee on trachoma World Health Organization, Geneva, 1961. Member study section National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Member Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1962-1972, rickettsial diseases committee, 1951-1972. Member United States of America Typhus Committee, 1942-1946.
Lieutenant colonel United States Army Medical Corps, 1942-1945. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Association Physicians, American Epidemiological Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Virginia Townsend Ferry, June 14, 1942. Children: Virginia Snyder MacNeil, John Macdonald, Gordon Mansfield.