Oral history interview with David A. Hamburg [electronic resource], 1996-1998.

Biographical Note

Psychiatrist, corporation president.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: grandson of Latvian Jewish immigrants; education: undergraduate degree, Indiana University, medical degree, Rockefeller University; Michael Reese Hospital: internship in psychiatry, 1947-1948; Yale University: residency training, psychiatry, 1948-1949; Brooke Army Hospital, 1950-1952; Walter Reed Institute, 1952-1953: research on stress-related disorders, burn victims; Stanford University: fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, genetics research, 1957-1961, chairman, Department of Psychology, 1961-1972: development of Behavior Endocrine Genetic Responses to Stress [BEG], primate research with Jane Goodall, Tanzania; Congo hostage crisis, 1975; president, Institute of Medicine, 1975-1980: interest in children's, adolescent's health; World Health Organization [WHO], 1975-1986; professor, Harvard University, 1980-1982: formation of health policy organizations, Early LIfe Working Group; arms control: Pugwash Conference, 1978, development of crisis prevention, Cold War; Gorbachev: first meeting with, coup against; president, Carnegie Corporation, 1982-1997: formation of Starting Points Initiative, Years of Promise, Great Transitions task forces, establishment of the Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, Council on Adolescent Development [CAD], Inquiry into Poverty in Southern Africa; media representation of childcare issues; Carnegie Final Report, 1998; relationships with presidents from Gerald R. Ford to Bill Clinton; reflections on leadership, role of foundations.

Subjects

• Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics and government--1960-
• Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Child development.
• Clark, Mary Marshall, interviewer.
• Cold War.
• Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1960-1997.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Hamburg, David A., 1925-2019--Interviews.
• Hearing, Brenda, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Psychiatrists--Interviews.
• Psychology.
• South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994.
• Stanford University.
• United States--Politics and government--1989-
• United States. Dept. of State.

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