Exhibit 049 · Peer-reviewed archival history
Backstage: the relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Health Organization, Part I: 1940s–1960s
the RF remained the LNHO’s lifeline, eventually funding almost half its personnel.
Archival history of Rockefeller influence on international health from the League of Nations to the early WHO. The Foundation was the League of Nations Health Organisation's lifeline and eventually funded almost half its personnel. IHD veterans planned and led UNRRA's health work. Many delegates to the 1946 International Health Conference were IHD fellows. The Foundation paid Fred Soper's first-year salary at the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and kept him on staff for his first four years there. Soper's moves forced the WHO into a regional structure. Director-General Marcolino Candau had been an RF fellow. Birn concludes that because the Foundation's approach was firmly in place at the WHO, its presence became superfluous.
- Source
- Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Public Health 128(2): 129–140
- Date
- February 2014
- Quoted from
- Public Health 128(2):129-140, p. 130 (left column wraps; sentence begins "Even though few IHD staff shared Rajchman’s views")
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2013.11.010
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Quotations in Chapter 2 were taken from that copy; page locators still to be added before a quote field is registered.