Mayo Clinic
[Letter requesting funding in support of American Health Foundation's Division of Epidemiology]
Abstract
Requests funds in the amount of $50,000.00 per year for five years to support activities of American Health Foundation's Division of Epidemiology. Offers brief summary of epidemiological activities of the Division: "focuses on the investigation of the relationship between lifestyle and environmental exposures to cancer and other major chronic illnesses, chiefly cancer and heart disease." Encloses copy of annual report [missing]. AHF letterhead includes names and affiliation of Board of Trustee members.
Fields
- Type
- Letter
- Company
- Philip Morris
- Site
- MN Depository
- Author
- Klarberg, Richard B.
- Recipient
- McVicker, Robert G. (Senior Vice President of Technology)1991
- Copied
- Wynder, Ernst L., M.D. (Epidemiologist, Sloan Kettering, Anti-Tobacco Expert)1993 First scientist to report in 1950 on the carginocencity of cigarettes in rats painted with tar. Assistant at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Directed the American Health Foundation (AHF) from 1984 to his death in 1998.
- Named Organization
- *American Health Foundation (Use American Health Foundation (IFCP)) (Health Research)1993 American Health Foundation - Directed by the late Dr. Ernst Wynder. Took funds from PM and Kraft for research relating to dietary and lifestyle causes of lung cancer.
- Kraft General Foods Inc. (A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994)
A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994 - Kraft General Foods Inc. (A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994)
- Thesaurus Term
- Industry Sponsored Research
- Health Advocacy Groups
- Epidemiology
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Health Advocacy Groups
- Keyword
- Lifestyle
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