Florida Public Health Oral History Project
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Interviewer
E. Charlton Prather
Publication Date
5-18-2016
Date
2002-05-11
Abstract
Larry Dodd is a graduate of the Citadel in Charleston. He came to Florida as a VDI, Venereal Disease Investigator, in 1960. He was assigned to the Dade County Department of Health, transferred to Pensacola, and moved on to a position with the State Board of Health as director of the immunization program in 1963. He retired from the Center for Disease Control in 1989. In this interview, he discusses the Compulsory Immunization Law in 1967, which required children to have had vaccinations prior to attending school. He also talks about Swine flu, small pox, measles, and polio. Closing out the interview, he then mentions his travels to Africa in service of public health initiatives.
Keywords
Florida. State Department of Public Welfare, Center for Disease Control, Vaccination, Measles, Immunization, H1N1 Influenza, Jet injectors, Hypodermic, Dade County (Fla.). Department of Public Health
Extent
01:21:11; 36 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Miami-Dade County (Fla.)
Language
English
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C53-00050
Recommended Citation
Dodd, Larry, "Larry Dodd Oral History Interview" (2016). Florida Public Health Oral History Project. 23.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fl_public_health_ohp/23
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