Charles-Edward Amory Winslow

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877 to 1957) was an American bacteriologist and public health expert, born in Boston, who trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began his career in water and sewage bacteriology. He was the youngest charter member of the Society of American Bacteriologists and, with Samuel Cate Prescott, wrote the first American textbook on water bacteriology. In 1915 he founded the Yale Department of Public Health within the Yale Medical School and chaired it until 1945, arguing at a time dominated by bacteriological discovery for a broader and more holistic account of what causes disease. He edited the Journal of Bacteriology and later the American Journal of Public Health, served as president of the American Public Health Association in 1926, helped found the Yale School of Nursing, and advised the World Health Organization in the 1950s.