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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).
Solidly researched, with a plethora of bibliography, Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, & the Cold War is a valid contribution to the history of medicine, to health policy studies, and to international organizations.
Jun 9, 2009 · Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War. Whether by coincidence or by design, 4 remarkable books that express the ideal of peace through health, the goal of the World Health Organization, were published in 2008, coinciding with WHO’s 60th anniversary.
- S. William A. Gunn
- 2009
Jan 1, 2009 · This is the story of a man and an institution: Brock Chisholm, world-renowned psychiatrist, one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, and first director-general of the World Health Organization, which he built up against overwhelming political odds after the Second World War.
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.
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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.
