Breslow, Lester

Lester Breslow received his education at the University of Minnesota, earning his B.A. (1935), M.D. (1938), M.P.H. (1941) and Sc.D. (Hon.) (1988). After two years with the Minnesota Department of Health and then Military service with the seventh infantry division in World War II he joined the California Department of Public Health in 1946 to found the Bureau of Chronic Diseases. He left the Department in 1967 after serving as State Health Officer to become a professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, then Chairman of the UCLA Medical School's Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. T...