Background
Brooks,, Thomas Joseph was born on May 23, 1916 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. Son of Thomas Joseph and Lelia Adeline (Perkins) Brooks.
Brooks,, Thomas Joseph was born on May 23, 1916 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. Son of Thomas Joseph and Lelia Adeline (Perkins) Brooks.
Bachelor of Science, University Florida, 1937. Master of Science, University Tennessee, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1942.
Doctor of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 1945.
Instructor bacteriology and parasitology School Medicine Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1942-1945. Intern Wake Forest University and North Carolina Baptist Hospital, 1945-1946. Associate professor pharmacology School Medicine University Mississippi, Oxford, 1947-1948.
Medical officer assigned to Veterans Administration Hospital United States Navy, Lake City, Florida, 1946-1947. Officer-in-charge streptococcal diseases research unit United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, 1953-1955. Professor, chairman department preventive medicine University Mississippi School Medicine, Jackson, 1952-1981, professor emeritus, from 1981.
Consultant Mississippi State Department Health, 1981—2001. Visiting professor preventive medicine faculty medicine, University Costa Rica, San Jose, 1962-1963, faculty medicine Keio University, Tokyo, 1968, faculty medicine Trinity College, University Dublin, Ireland, 1979. Visiting professor public health faculty medicine Kyoto University, Japan, 1968-1969.
Invited lecturer school medicine University North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1971. Physician-in-chief University Hospital, Florida State University, 1948-1952. Assistant dean in charge student affairs school medicine University Mississippi, 1956-1973.
United Nations consultant in medical education, India, 1966.
Past president Jackson (Mississippi) Photographic Society, Jackson Amateur Radio Club. Consultant to rector Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1968. Chairman admissions committee School Medicine, University Mississippi, 1955-1965.
Fellow Royal Society Health England. Member American Public Health Association (committee on communicable diseases 1968-1975, nominating committee epidemiology section 1975, council international health division 1978-1981, chairman nominating committee council international health division 1981), Mississippi Public Health Association, University Tennessee Honorary Biological Society (president 1938-1939), Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Mary Alice Pollard. Children: Thomas Joseph III, Michael Pollard, Mary Browning, Melinda Anne.