GAH, RK,

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE - NEW YORK,NEW YORK 10021

THE PRESIDENT

June 28, 1978

 

Dr. Anita K. Bahn

Graduate Group in Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania

36th and Hamilton Walk/GA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Dear Dr. Bahn:

I was very pleased to have the chance to meet you
at the science week. This is to follow-up our conver-
sation and your offer to send me more information about
your graduate training program. From the leaflet I was
not able to get a clear picture of the curriculum that
you have laid out for your students. I would also be
curious to know who you have collaborating with you
from the faculty of other departments and especially
what sort of liaison has been possible with experimen-
tally gr oriented activities. I could certainly get
some clues at your orientation if you could send me ab-
stracts or titles of some of the dissertations coming
through your program.

Isn't it rather unusual to have such a large faculty
in epidemiology, and particularly in a» school of medicine?
Of course, I am not sure that I really know the signifi-
cance of the clinical and adjunct titles-but I wonder if
you could tell me a little bit about the historical back-
ground of this activity at the University of Pennsylvania.

If you know of other schools that have strong programs
that could be examples for thinking about the organization
of research and graduate training in this field, I would
be grateful for the hint. .

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Finally, if you have a list of publications from your
department I would appreciate the favor of a copy.

Yours mee

Lroshua Lederberg