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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) expands access to health information digitally and free of charge to people around the world. Explore a selection of items from the NLM’s collections related to the revolutionary examples of global health intervention.

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“The March on Washington, 1963,” American Journal of Public Health , Elizabeth Fee et al., February 2002

Dr. H. Jack Geiger, who founded the first community health centers in the United States, traveled to Mississippi as a field coordinator for the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1964. The Medical Committee for Human Rights brought together doctors, nurses, dentists, and social workers to eliminate racism in health care.