The Antonia C. Novello Papers, 1969-2008 (24.82 linear feet + 656 born digital files) were recently processed and are available for research. Dr. Novello, born in Puerto Rico in 1944, was the first woman to serve as United States Surgeon General. Speeches, presentations, subject files, electronic born digital files, professional conference and meeting materials, awards, and personal biographical materials document Dr. Novello's professional public health and public service career. The largest portion of the collection relates to Novello's tenure as New York State Commissioner of Health.
242 new poster images were added to the Images from the History of Medicine. These largely represent anti-smoking, drug prevention, and HIV/AIDS/sexual health public health advertising from the Netherlands. Dutch is the predominant language; date coverage is largely 1990s through the mid-2000s.
Two digitized manuscript collections totaling over 33,000 pages are newly available in NLM Digital Collections
- Wilbur Sawyer Papers, 1879-1995 - Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat while working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission.
- John Fulton Papers, 1929-1953 - Digitized as part of NLM’s collaboration with Adam Matthew Publishing, the collection documents Fulton’s World War II-era military and aviation physiological work for Yale's Aeromedical Research Unit and the National Research Council's Division of Medical Services.