Oral history interview with Patricia L. Rosenfield 1998

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Interview segment 9 (video) part 1

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Interview segment 9 (audio) part 2

Name: Rosenfield, Patricia L (Interviewee); Zane, Sharon (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Patricia L. Rosenfield 1998
Other Titles: Reminiscences of Patricia L. Rosenfield : oral history, 1998
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 Department of Human Resources; doctoral research on development in pre-revolutionary Iran; employment as lecturer in public health at Johns Hopkins Univer sity; 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.
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Subjects: Public Health--Africa; Public Health--Mexico; Libraries--Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Rosenfield, Patricia L; Carnegie Corporation of New York; World Health Organization
Format: oral histories
Genre: Interviews
Origin Information: 1998
Date: 1998
Physical Description: 239 pages
Note (Biographical): Foundation Administrator
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.; Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.; Interviewed by Sharon Zane on February 25, March 3, April 2, May 6, and October 9, 1998.
Note (Provenance): Patricia L. Rosenfield, Gift, 1998
Note (Copyright): Copyright for Session 5 of interview by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998.
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record: 7584964
Also In: Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
Copyright Status: In Copyright
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-h3c5-cm33
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.