Talk:Wade Hampton Frost

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"Father of modern epidemiology"!?

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Removed weasel wording ("often").... According to his published biography (Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880–1938: Up to the Mountain) he is a ‘‘little known... academic medical figure’’ so how is he "OFTEN considered the FATHER of MODERN EPIDEMIOLOGY" .... Not many sources seem to back this up. And the citation is broken! Fairly significant claim for a stub....

104.128.253.18 (talk) 00:19, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Of the first 10 google results for "Father of modern epidemiology," nine say John Snow, and one says Jerome Fracastor (Girolamo Fracastoro).

104.128.253.18 (talk) 00:23, 29 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Summary of his career

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"The Virginian Wade Hampton Frost, commonly known as Jack, was born in 1880 and received a doctor of medicine degree in 1903. His professional life comprised 4 distinct periods: 1) From 1905 to 1908, he was an assistant surgeon [i.e., a commissioned officer] in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service (now the Public Health Service). 2) From 1908 to 1913, he worked at the Hygienic Laboratory (the forerunner of the National Institutes of Health) in Washington, DC. 3) From 1913 to 1918, while still working for the Public Health Service, he began to oversee Cincinnati's water quality. 4) For the historically most distinct period of his life, from 1919 until his death in 1938 (from esophageal cancer; he was a chain smoker but did not seem to have suspected the association), he moved to the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health to be the first chair of the newly created Department of Epidemiology and eventually the Dean (1931–1934). Until 1929, he remained on the Public Health Service payroll, officially as expert in water quality." Am J Epidemiol. 2013 Sep 10;178(7):1013–1019. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwt199 Snippets From the Past: The Evolution of Wade Hampton Frost's Epidemiology as Viewed From the American Journal of Hygiene/Epidemiology by Alfredo Morabia. 2600:2B00:780C:EC00:FCD8:9D7A:520C:12CC (talk) 04:14, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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