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Names Zane, Sharon Geographic South Africa

Rosenfield, Patricia L

Name: Rosenfield, Patricia L (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1998
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Abstract: Childhood in New York; father's experience as philanthropist; education: undergraduate at Bryn Mawr College, doctorate at Johns Hopkins University; involvement in student government; advanced studies of epidemiology; employment with New York City Depa rtment of Human Resources; doctoral research on development in pre-revolutionary Iran; employment as lecturer in public health at Johns Hopkins University; research on schistosomiasis; employment with World Health Organization in Cameroon; emergence of AIDS epidemic; employment with Carnegie Corporation of New York ; development of public health initiatives at National University of Ghana; Carnegie endowment of Mexican public health programs; frustration with lack of cooperative staff members; personality conflicts with other administrators; racial conflicts within Carnegie administration; need to strengthen collections of African university libraries; implementation of CD-ROM technology at University of Zimbabwe; coordination of Zimbabwean farming communities program; failure of African Academy of Sciences; women's advocacy programs in South Africa; efficacy of Preventing Deadly Conflict Program; interest in economics and land-use planning; results of Afrikaaner poverty study on South African race relations; lack of international credibility associated with being American.

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