Harden, Victoria A.

Victoria A. Harden retired in 2006 after twenty years as the founding director of the Office of NIH History at the National Institutes of Health. She has written numerous articles about AIDS and has lectured widely on its history. Dr. Harden is the author of "Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887 1937" (1986) and "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease" (1990), the latter winning the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government. She received the American Historical Association 's 2006 Herbert Feis Award for outstan...