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Heritage Project — ‘The dignity of man’

February 13, 2023
Estimated reading time: 1 minutes
Thirty-five years after receiving his medical degree from Michigan in 1931, Paul Cornely called on schools of public health to better prepare their graduates for addressing the health challenges facing African Americans. Health education was important, but racism, he said, was the ultimate public health challenge.
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