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Date: April 21, 1975

Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics

David A. Hamburg, M.D.

Visit Dr. Norman Sartorius -— World Health Organization, May 8

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Dear Josh:

On Thursday, May 8, Dr. Norman Sartorius will be visiting Stanford.
He is the Director of the Office of Mental Health and Behavioral Science of
the World Health Organization. Recently, under the leadership of Dr. Thomas
Lambo, Deputy-Director of WHO, an expansion of WHO activities in "psycho
social aspects of health" has been authorized by the relevant governing
bodies of WHO. Dr. Sartorius is largely responsible for developing plans
to implement this new mission, which is in a critical formative stage.
I am trying to help him in this work and therefore am setting up a small
dinner at the Faculty Club on Thursday, May 8 and hope very much that you
will be able to attend. It will be a working dinner at which Dr. Sartorius
will make a brief presentation of the nature of the task and raise questions
which he would like to have discussed. I believe these questions will center
on:

1. important problems that are potentially researchable;

2. competent investigators, especially in developing countries; the relation
of research activities to health services and education in developing
countries;

3. relation of psycho-social research to biological research, particularly
in respect to a new biomedical research institute under WHO auspices in
Zambia.

We will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 8 and I certainly look
forward to seeing you there.

Please notify my office, extension 7-6309, whether you will be
able to make it.

Sincerely,

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(dictated by Dr. Hamburg and signed in his absence)

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