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- He was the first psychiatrist to head the medical ranks of any army in the world. In 1944, Chisholm became the first person to occupy the position of Deputy Minister of Health, which he held until 1946. Chisholm became the first Director-General for the World Health Organization in 1948, where he remained until his retirement in 1953.
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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).
- Early Life
- First World War Service
- Education and Early Career
- Second World War Service
- Pulhems System of Medical Grading
- Director General of Medical Services
- Health Administrator and Controversial Public Figure
- Director-General of The World Health Organization
- Later Life and Advocacy
- Significance
Brock Chisholm was the third of six children born to Frank and Lizzie Chisholm. Frank delivered coal and sold patentmedicines. Lizzie, who suffered from a debilitating illness, struggled to care for Brock and his siblings. His older sister, Faith, helped raise the younger children. The family had trouble making ends meet on Frank’s modest earnings....
Brock Chisholm served in the trenches in France and rose through the army’s lower ranks. By January 1917, when he was made a lieutenant in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he had already been a cook, sniper, machine-gunner and scout. That August, he fought in the Battle for Hill 70 and earned the Military Cross for courage. His leadership of his p...
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. The newlyweds spent a year in London, England, where Brock completed postgraduate work. They returned in 1925 and set up ...
Brock Chisholm remained active in the Canadian military in the years after the First World War. He rose to senior ranks in the militia (i.e., the reserve infantry forces) while pursuing his medical career. From 1928 to 1931 he was lieutenant colonel of The Halton Rifles and from 1931 to 1932 he was lieutenant colonel of The Lorne Rifles. In the lat...
In 1941, Chisholm became the army’s director of personnel selection. He developed a new system for evaluating recruits that weighted aspects of mental healthon the same scale as physical health. Chisholm’s template for assessing recruits was called PULHEMS (Physique, Upper Limbs, Lower Limbs, Hearing, Eyesight, Mentality, Stability). In matching in...
In 1942, Chisholm was promoted to director general of medical services for the Canadian Army. He expanded the processes for screening new recruits by having psychiatric social workers gather information on candidates that might point to a nervous or mental disability. He made the antibiotic drug penicillin widely available to the army while it was ...
In November 1944, Brock Chisholm was appointed federal deputy minister of health in the Liberal government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He played a central role in early attempts to negotiate the Green Book proposals (plans for a national health-insurance system) with the provinces (see also: Health Policy; Social Security; Welfar...
Brock Chisholm did resign as deputy minister of health in July 1946, but not from political pressure. He was appointed executive secretary of a commission that the United Nationshad tasked with establishing the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition to coming up with the organization’s name, Chisholm contributed his definition of health to it...
Upon their return to Canada, Brock and Grace Chisholm built a house near the village of Sooke on Vancouver Island. In the mid-1950s, Brock held positions as a special lecturer at several universities. Until the late 1960s, the couple travelled half the year for his many speaking engagements. Chisholm unsuccessfully ran as a Conservative candidate f...
In his military career, Brock Chisholm was a decorated soldier who became an effective, bold and forward-thinking administrator. He introduced mental health as a crucial factor in the selection, placement and management of armypersonnel. His PULHEMS system of medical grading was not only successful in Canada, but also influenced other Western natio...
Jan 4, 2007 · Dr George Brock Chisholm served as WHO’s first Director-General from 1948 to 1953. Born in Oakville, Ontario (Canada), on 18 May 1896, Dr Chisholm died in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada) on 4 February 1971.
George Brock Chisholm, past moderator of the American Unitarian Association, was born on May 18, 1896 in Oakville Ontario. At the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Canadian Army's 15th battalion, in which he served as a cook, sniper, machine gunner, and scout.
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Oct 2, 2023 · George Brock Chisholm was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical administrator and decorated soldier. He was the first Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and during World War II served as Director General of Medical Services, the Canadian Army's highest ranking medical position.
- May 18, 1896
- February 4, 1971
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).
This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Major-General George Brock Chisholm. He was a general during World War Two.
