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Edward G. McGavran was dean of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1963. In those years the school added departments of biostatistics, maternal and child health, and mental health, more than quadrupled its faculty and tripled its students. McGavran-Greenberg Hall, completed in 1990, is named in part for him.
1902–1972 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Edward G. McGavran.
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Edward G. McGavran's report to the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, issued in Chapel Hill in 1963. An administrative statement on the school's history, addressed to its teaching faculty.
The program for the dedication of McGavran-Greenberg Hall and the Herman G. Baity Environmental Engineering Laboratory at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, held on May 4, 1990 at two in the afternoon. Edward G. McGavran and Herman G. Baity are the figures the buildings honor.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: McGavran, Edward G., 1902-1972.
Harriet H. Barr's life of Edward G. McGavran (1902-1972), physician, health officer and teacher in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which published the book in 1979. Some 117 pages with portraits, a bibliography and a list of McGavran's own publications at pages 106 to 109. The spine title is Guardian of the body politic.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: McGavran, Edward G., 1902-1972.
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