Ira Hiscock
Ira V. Hiscock (1892–1986)
Ira Vaughan Hiscock was born in Farmington, ME. He first graduated from Wesleyan University, where he came under the influence of bacteriologist Herbert W. Conn. He worked as a bacteriologist with the Connecticut Department of Health from 1914–1917. He received a Certificate of Public Health from Yale University in 1921 and stayed at Yale as a faculty member. Upon C.-E.A. Winslow’s retirement, Hiscock became the Chairman and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health at Yale University (1945–1960). During World War II (1943–1945), he was a Colonel in the USAR, Chief of Public Health, Civil Affairs Division, War Department.
A long-time collaborator with his mentor, Winslow, Hiscock became a national and international authority on public health administration and directed health surveys of communities in Connecticut and around the country, and U.S. Territories of Samoa and Hawaii.[1] He authored more than 300 papers.[2] Hiscock was also a pioneer in cancer epidemiology. In the early 1930s, the New Haven Cancer Committee, which Hiscock chaired, found that the city had one of the highest cancer mortality rates in New England. The committee became a model for collection of uniform data and follow-up, leading to the establishment of the Connecticut Tumor Registry in 1935.[3]
He was passionate about the control of communicable diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, and measles; the improvement of maternity and child health care; the promotion of health education for children and adults; the advancement of public health education in medical schools; and the establishment and administration of state and local health councils.[4]
He served as commissioner of the New Haven Board of Health from 1928 to 1958 and served as president of the National Health Council, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Schools of Public Health and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
The Hiscock files are held in the Manuscripts and Archives division of the Yale University Library. A professorship is named in his honor at the Yale School of Public Health.
Family:
Hiscock’s son, William M. Hiscock (died 1994), also worked in public health. He was a Medicaid Bureau program officer of the US Department of Health and Human Services and executive director of the Central Maryland Health Systems Agency.[5] . Margaret Brooks Hiscock Weatherly (1926–2014) was his daughter.[6]
Connecticut Department of Public Health Ira Hiscock Award
The Ira V. Hiscock Award is presented annually to a Connecticut layperson or organization that has made notable contributions to the advancement of public health through public service, education, advocacy and/or leadership.
Recipients:
- 2005 - Garret Condon
- 2006 - 2-1-1, United Way and State of Connecticut
- 2007 - Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective
- 2008 - Connecticut Cancer Partnership
- 2009 - Christopher Donovan
- 2011 - The University of Connecticut (UConn) Migrant Farm Worker Clinic
- 2013 - March for Change
- 2014 - Ann Greene
- 2015 - Chris Willems
- 2016 - The Witness Project of Connecticut, Bridgeport
- 2017 - Richard Blumenthal
- 2018 – AIDS Connecticut (ACT)
References
- ↑ Ira V. Hiscock (September 1, 1955). "Health Surveys". SAGE Journals. doi:10.1177/146642405507500905. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ↑ Anonymous (2011-06-22). "Ira V. Hiscock (1892-1986)". Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ↑ Haenszel, William (1986). "The First Fifty Years of the Connecticut Tumor Registry: Reminiscences and Prospects" (PDF). The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 59: 475–484 – via biomedsearch.
- ↑ "The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA) publications". American Public Health Association (APHA) publications. doi:10.2105/ajph.44.5.670. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ↑ Miller, Amy L. "W. M. Hiscock, 71, public health officer". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ↑ "Obituary for Margaret Brooks Hiscock Weatherly at Hill and Wood". www.hillandwood.com. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/10/obituaries/dr-ira-v-hiscock-ex-head-of-yale-s-public-health-unit.html
- Ira Hiscock Collection, Yale Manuscripts and Archives Guide Collection,https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/10/resources/497
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