John Harland Paul

Background

Paul, John Harland was born on April 16, 1900 in Tracy, Minnesota, United States. Son of Alexander and Jane (Davis) Paul.

Education

Graduate Shanghai-American High School, 1917. Student Columbia, 1919. Bachelor of Philosophy, Yale, 1923.

Doctor of Medicine Harvard, 1927, Certificate of Public Health, 1927.

Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins, 1950. Postgraduate Oxford (England) University, 1921, Heidelberg University, 1925, 26.

Career

Intern United States Public Health Service Hospital, New York City, 1927-1928. Surgeon Carnegie Institute, Washington, 1928-1930. Surgeon, science researcher in meteorology and oceanography in research vessel Carnegie, 1929.

Member of staff, special research member, field representative International Health division Rockefeller Foundation, New York C., 1930-1950.

Director bureau entomology Florida State Board Health, Jacksonville, 1943-1946. Senior surgeon, medical director research United States Public Health Service, 1950-1955.

Chief of party health, welfare and housing. Institute Inter-American Affairs.

Peru and Washington, 1950-1954.

Director Health Center, Basra, Iraq, 1954-1955. Epidemiologist and deputy director Hillsborough County (Florida) Health Department, 1956-1958. Director Orange County (Florida) Health Department, 1958-1960.

Director Suwannee, Lafayette and Dixie counties health departments, 1960-1964.

Medical consultant adjudication Virginia Regional Office, Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, 1965-1971. Diplomate American Board Preventive Medicine.

Achievements

• John Harland Paul has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of staff, special research. Fellow American College Preventive Medicine, American Public Health Association, Florida Academy Preventive Medicine. Member American Academy Preventive Medicine, Boylston Society, Aesculapian Society.

Rotarian.

Research in acute respiratory diseases, Norway, New York City, Harvard, 1930-1932.

Connections

Married Jane-Ellen Norman, December 19, 1936.