Robert J. Anderson (public health administrator)

Robert J. Anderson
Robert J. Anderson
Chief of the Communicable Disease Center
	In office; October 1, 1956 – June 30, 1960
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	Theodore J. Bauer
Succeeded by	Clarence A. Smith
Personal details
Born	1914
Died	July 24, 1999; Arlington, Virginia

Robert J. Anderson (1914 – July 24, 1999) was the chief of the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) of the United States Public Health Service, forerunner to the modern Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from October 1, 1956, to June 30, 1960.^[1]^[2]

Anderson was born in

venereal disease unit during World War II alongside John Friend Mahoney.^[2]

After studying

Rockefeller fellowship, Anderson worked on tuberculosis control. In 1947 he became the chief of the Tuberculosis Control program at the Public Health Service. He left the tuberculosis program in 1956 to become head of the Communicable Disease Center. At the CDC, Anderson oversaw the building of the Atlanta campus.^[2]

After the CDC, Anderson returned to

Washington, DC and worked on environmental health, including as Chief of the Bureau of State Services.^[3]

He retired from the Public Health Service in 1966. After retirement, he served as medical director of the American Thoracic Society and (from 1970 to 1974) managing director of a forerunner to the American Lung Association.^[4]^[2]

Anderson died of an

Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 85.^[4]

Selected works

Anderson, Robert J. (1953). "Current Status of Tuberculosis Control in the United States". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 43 (8). American Public Health Association: 961–964.
PMID 13065551
.

Anderson, Robert J. (1961). "Getting on with the public health job". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 51 (10). American Public Health Association: 1590–1592.
ISSN 0002-9572
.

Anderson, Robert J. (1963). "New Directions in Environmental Health". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 53 (9). American Public Health Association: 1439–1446.
PMID 14042540
.

References

^ "Past CDC Directors/Administrators | About | CDC". www.cdc.gov. July 20, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Watson, William; Anderson, Robert J. (September 25, 1984). Robert J. Anderson, interviewed by Bill Watson (Video). Retrieved May 3, 2020. Transcript.
^ "Annual Report, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1963". Retrieved September 16, 2020 – via HathiTrust.
^ ^a ^b "Robert Anderson, 85, Dies". The Washington Post. August 3, 1999. Retrieved May 3, 2020.

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[1] "Past CDC Directors/Administrators | About | CDC". www.cdc.gov. July 20, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2020.

[interview-2] Watson, William; Anderson, Robert J. (September 25, 1984). Robert J. Anderson, interviewed by Bill Watson (Video). Retrieved May 3, 2020. Transcript.

[HEW1963-3] "Annual Report, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1963". Retrieved September 16, 2020 – via HathiTrust.

[Washington_Post-4] "Robert Anderson, 85, Dies". The Washington Post. August 3, 1999. Retrieved May 3, 2020.

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