Katherine Dodge Brownell by unidentified photographer; black and white photograph.

Collection Summary 

Creator
Brownell, Katherine Dodge

Dates
1 Jul 1901-7 Dec 1983

Institutional Affiliation(s)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1924-1928

Johns Hopkins Hospital
1930 

Date Range of Collection
1933-1973

Volume of Collection
2.5 linear feet

Biography

Katherine Dodge Brownell was born in Boston. She received her A.B. in 1923 from Vassar College and her M.D. in 1928 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1948, she received an M.P.H. from the Columbia University School of Public Health. Brownell trained in pediatrics while at Johns Hopkins, then went on to join the faculty of the New York University College of Medicine and did pioneering work on rheumatic fever in children. She held several public health appointments in New York City and New York State, and during World War II was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Public Health Service. She was eventually assigned to the United Nations Relief and Reconstruction Administration and served as chief medical officer in Greece and Palestine. The first woman elected to the board of directors of the Leake Watts Children's Home in Yonkers, New York, Brownell served on the board until her death in 1983. 

Scope and Content

The Katherine D. Brownell Collection spans most of her medical career after leaving Johns Hopkins. The bulk of the material relates to Brownell's work with the U.S. Public Health Service on assignment for the United Nations Relief and Reconstruction Administration. Materials from A Greece Mission in the late 1940s include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, worksheets, and administrative documents. Also included in the collection are biographical information, clippings, talks, and reprints of Brownell's articles.

Policy on Access and Use

This collection may contain some restricted records. Materials pertaining to patients, students, employees, and human research subjects, as well as unprocessed collections and recent administrative records, carry restrictions on access. For more information about the policies and procedures for access, see Policy on Access and Use.

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