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The COVID Tracking Project was a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Their records include data products and sources, blog and social media posts, correspondence, internal communications, and team documents. Technical infrastructure, such as data entry and quality tools, public code repositories, and internal databases are also present.

Abstract Selma K. Dritz, MD, MPH, served as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control and Chief of the Division of Occupational Health of the San Francisco Department of Public Health from 1967-1984. She played a seminal role in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area. Collection includes material predominantly related to HIV/AIDS, including correspondence, research and educational materials, publications and clippings, and conference and lecture...

Abstract The papers of noted medical professor and researcher Frederick L. Dunn document his career as a professor, medical doctor, and anthropologist, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1950-1980. Dunn is a scholar-practitioner who was instrumental in the development of the fields of international health and anthropology in public health, formerly known as "tropical medicine," and his work has left lasting impressions on how it is continued to be practiced. The majority of Dunn's...

Abstract The papers of noted medical professor and researcher Frederick L. Dunn document his career as a professor, medical doctor, and anthropologist, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1950-1980. Dunn is a scholar-practitioner who was instrumental in the development of the fields of international health and anthropology in public health, formerly known as "tropical medicine," and his work has left lasting impressions on how it is continued to be practiced. The majority of Dunn's...

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Donald P. Francis (1942-) is an epidemiologist and pediatrician with extensive experience in vaccines and infectious disease control, including work with Ebola, smallpox, hepatitis, and HIV/AIDS. The collection relates to his work at the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other public health organizations and includes travel files, correspondence and subject files, research and patient records, publications, audiovisual material, computer media, and artifacts.

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Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer winning science journalist and public health and policy advocate. She has written extensively on global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.

Content Description Materials documenting history of Haight Ashbury Free Clinic -- a free health care service provider that was founded by UCSF alumni David E. Smith in 1967. With the guiding principle that "Health care is a right, not a privilege," Smith opened up the clinic at 558 Clayton Street, near the corner of Haight Street. The clinic's first clients were primarily young people who had come to San Francisco for the Summer of Love who could not afford health care, but it has since become a model for...