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Dec 12, 2007 · Since he’d been a child, Brock Chisholm had wanted to become a doctor. He enrolled in medicine at the University of Toronto in 1919 and graduated in 1924. That same year, he married Grace Ryrie, whom he had met 10 years earlier.
George Brock Chisholm CC CBE MC ED (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr. Brock Chisholm, first Director General of WHO, as an honorary guest at the 19th Assembly, visiting the new WHO headquarters building in Geneva. In July of 1946, he became the Executive Secretary of the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Emily Mace
Dr. Chisholm, who began his medical career as a physician in private practice, effectively became “Doctor to the World,” with a practice embracing 3 billion people, helping build the cooperative international institutions that sustain the world today.
Seventy-four-year-old George Brock Chisholm, the first director general of the World Health Organization, died on 4 February 1971, at Victoria’s Veteran’s Hospital in British Columbia.
George Brock Chisholm CC CBE MC ED (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Jun 9, 2009 · Based on an extensive search through the archives of WHO and related records, Brock Chisholm is an attempt by Farley, a Dalhousie University medical historian, to clarify the often entangled relationships between an idealistic leader, a fledgling organization for a new world order and a pitiless Cold War confrontation.
