Alice Hamilton earned the name “First Lady of Industrial Medicine” for pioneering a field dedicated to public health and safety. She is responsible for spearheading groundbreaking studies into the ...

Erica Kenney, associate professor of public health nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was honored for her achievements in research, mentorship, and leadership at the 14th annual ...

Note: A previous version of this story published May 20, 2021. When then-middle school student Julia Florek Carlson went on a family visit to the Hull House museum searching for an idea for a history ...

Alice Hamilton was the leading expert of occupational health and industrial toxicology at the height of her career, but she traveled a long, hard road to get there. Hamilton was born in 1869 and grew ...

The 13th Annual Alice Hamilton Award Ceremony will take place on April 4th from 2pm-4pm in the Kresge Cafeteria and online via webinar. This award ceremony honors women faculty at the Harvard Chan ...

From a young age, Alice Hamilton (1869–1970) dreamed of making the world a better place. As a young lady, she held true to her Christian faith and dreamed of becoming a missionary. She chose to study ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Daniel Stone talked about the 1920s as the era of American cars, including the dangerous conditions that existed in the country's factories.

When Upton Sinclair was living in Mary McDowell’s stockyards settlement house in Chicago and raking up the muck for his novel The Jungle, a trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton ...