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Gregg worked at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City from 1919 until he retired in 1956, in that time spending 20 years as Director of the Medical Sciences Division and finishing his career as the foundation's vice president.
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Rockefeller Foundation officer Alan Gregg (1890-1957) became one of the most influential men in the world of medical education and research. From 1919 to 1922, he worked as a field officer in the foundation's International Health Board, later becoming Associate Director of the Medical Education Division.
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A Trustee Bulletin from 1943 described three reasons for the decision to concentrate resources on psychiatry:Title derived from 1937 Annual Report of the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation, Annual Report 1937(New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1937) 28. 1. To counter the economic losses due to nervous and mental diseases, in part...
The Rockefeller Foundation strategy to support psychiatry incorporated three distinct goals: 1. Improvement in psychiatric teaching in medical schools between 1931 and 1944 2. Aid in building key research centers throughout the 1940s 3. Better psychiatric practices in hospitals, schools, courts and social workExcerpt from Trustee Bulletin, “The Str...
Among the most significant contributions were major grants to McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and the University of Chicago. In 1932 McGill University received $1,282,652, which represented that year’s largest Rockefeller Foundation grant in the medical sciences. The grant resulted from lobbying by Dr. Wilder Penfield, a well-regarded neuros...
Explore this topic by viewing records, many of which are digitized, through our online archival discovery system. 1. “McGill University – Neurology,” 1931-1939. Rockefeller Foundation records, Projects (Grants), Record Group 1, Subgroup 1.1, Series 427, Rockefeller Archive Center. 2. “University of Chicago – Psychiatry,” 1931-1941. Rockefeller Foun...
From 1919 to 1951, Alan Gregg and his mentor, Richard Pearce, directed the Medical Education and Medical Sciences Divisions of the Rockefeller Foundation. Although they oversaw the expenditure of millions of dollars, today they are forgotten.
Meeting with the Rockefeller Foundation's Victor Heiser in 1916, Gregg became convinced that advanced public health practice was the best way to bring medical knowledge to bear on disease prevention.
1951-56--Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation; 1954-55--Served on medical committee of Hoover Commission for Efficiency in Government, helped secure approval for National Library of Medicine; 1956--Received Special Albert Lasker Award for distinguished service and leadership in public health, medical education, and research
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Dr. Alan Gregg was with the Rockefeller Foundation from 1922 to 1956, the year he retired. He was Associate Director in the Division of Medical Education, 1922-1930; Director of the Division of Medical Sciences, 1930-1951; and, Vice-President of the Foundation, 1951-1956.
