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The Rockefeller Foundation convenes public health training.

Date: 1914

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The foundation calls for a medical- and laboratory-oriented approach to education in the field, promising funding for new curricula in the future. This is asserted as one of the umbrella strategies proposed by Rockefeller to completely change how health care and social work are defined.