Jenkins, Bill
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Name (Latin)
Jenkins, Bill
Date of birth
1945-07-26
Date of death
2019-02-17
Field of activity
Discrimination in medical care
Epidemiology
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Occupation
Epidemiologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- In medical science, 1997:credit frame (Bill Jenkins, Ph.D., MPH) container (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Ga.)
Wikipedia description:
William Carter Jenkins (July 26, 1945 – February 17, 2019) was an American public health researcher and academic. Jenkins worked as a statistician at the United States Public Health Service in the 1960s, and is best known for trying to halt the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in 1968. He spent the rest of his career fighting racism in the U.S. healthcare system, working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the early days of the AIDS crisis, and overseeing the government benefits program for survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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