Margaret G. Arnstein

Margaret Gene Arnstein (born October 27, 1904; died 1972[1]) was a nursing and public health advocate. She served as Dean of the Yale School of Nursing from 1967 to 1972 and had also taught at the University of Michigan.[2]

Education and early career

She received her degree from Smith College and her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.[3] During WWII she was Chief Nurse of the Balkan Mission of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. After the war she worked for the US Public Health Service for twenty years.[4]

Later career and honors

In 1964, while still working for the Health Service, she moved to the Office of International Health. In this position she studied health services in developing countries and visited India.[5] After government work she taught at the University of Michigan for a year,[6] before becoming Dean at Yale.

In 1955 she shared the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award.[7] In 1971 she received the Sedgwick Memorial Medal.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Seymour Brody (2004). Jewish Heroes & Heroines of America: 151 True Stories of Jewish American Heroism. Frederick Fell Publishers. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0-88391-026-9.
  2. ↑ Yale School of Nursing Tercentennial Exhibit
  3. ↑ Obituary at the New York Times
  4. ↑ Wegman ME (1973). "A tribute to Margaret G. Arnstein (1904-1972)". Am J Public Health. 63: 97. doi:10.2105/ajph.63.2.97. PMC 1775079. PMID 4567514.
  5. ↑ Barbara Sicherman; Carol Hurd Green (1980). Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-674-62733-8.
  6. ↑ Proceedings of the Board of Regents, The University of Michigan. The University. 1966. pp. 78–79.
  7. ↑ Lasker Foundation page
  8. ↑ American Public Health Association Awards page for the Sedgwick Medal


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