Ruth Rice Puffer
Ruth Rice Puffer | |
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Born | Harvard School of Public Health Smith College | August 31, 1907
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biostatistics |
Institutions | Pan American Health Organization |
Ruth Rice Puffer (August 31, 1907 – September 2, 2002) was an American biostatistician who headed the Department of Health Statistics of the Pan American Health Organization, where she led the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality.[1][2][3][4][5]
Life
Puffer was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, and went to Hudson High School (Massachusetts).[1] She graduated from
After completing her doctorate, Puffer returned to Tennessee, but her interest in international health statistics was sparked by a 1946 lecture tour in Chile, and a return visit there in 1950.[2] From 1953 to 1970, she worked with the Pan American Health Organization.[1][2][3] Since that time, she continued to work as a consultant, including trips to India, Thailand, and Indonesia.[2] She moved to Corvallis, Oregon in 1982, and to McMinnville, Oregon, where she died, in 1991.[1]
Recognition
Puffer was elected as a
Books
Puffer was the author of:
- Familial Susceptibility to Tuberculosis: Its Importance as a Public Health Problem (Harvard University Press, 1944)[7]
- Practical Statistics in Health and Medical Work (McGraw-Hill, 1950)[8]
- Patterns of Urban Mortality (with G. Wynne Griffith, Pan American Health Organization, 1967)[9]
- Patterns of Mortality in Childhood (Pan American Health Organization, 1973)[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Dr. Ruth Rice Puffer", McMinnville News-Register, September 5, 2002
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ruth Rice Puffer: Highlights of a rewarding life" (PDF), Pan American Journal of Public Health, 12 (5), 2002
- ^ PMID 12773341
- ^ Public Health Heroes: Dr. Ruth Puffer, Pan American Health Organization, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ISBN 9780323154857
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-19
- ^ Reviews of Familial Susceptibility to Tuberculosis:
- Tager, M. (March 1945), Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 17 (4) (4 ed.): 581, )
- British Journal of Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest, 39 (4): 107–108, October 1945, doi:10.1016/s0366-0869(45)80031-x)
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - Glass, Bentley (September 1945), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 20 (3): 288, )
- Caranti, Elio (1943–1949), Genus (in Italian), 6/8 (1): 542, )
- ^ Reviews of Practical Statistics in Health and Medical Work:
- Parkhurst, Elizabeth (August 1950), American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 40 (8): 1017, )
- Deardorff, Neva R. (September 1950), Social Service Review, 24 (3): 413–414, )
- Knowelden, J. (September 1950), "The Statistician's Job", The British Medical Journal, 2 (4679): 610, PMC 2038489
- Arnstein, Margaret (February 1951), The American Journal of Nursing, 51 (2) (2 ed.): 152, )
- Sellers, A. H. (March 1951), Canadian Journal of Public Health, 42 (3): 113–114, )
- Winsor, C. P. (June 1951), The Quarterly Review of Biology, 26 (2): 243–244, )
- ^ Review of Patterns of Urban Mortality:
- Moriyama, Iwao M. (July 1968), American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health, 58 (7): 1300, )
- ^ Review of Patterns Of Mortality In Childhood:
- Colley, J. R. T. (November 1973), The British Medical Journal, 4 (5888): 363, )