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ALT Wikipedia page intro for: Loney Gordon Loney Clinton Gordon (1915-1999) was an African-American chemist and laboratory researcher who assisted doctors Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering with bacteriological virulence research leading to the creation of the pertussis vaccine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loney_Gordon
ALT Wikipedia page intro for Grace Eldering: Grace Eldering (September 5, 1900 - August 31, 1988) 111 was an American public health scientist, known for her involvement in the creation of a vaccine for whooping cough along with Loney Gordon and Pearl Kendrick. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Eldering
![Wikipedia intro & photo for Pearl Kendrick: Pearl Louella Kendrick (August 24, 1890 - October 8, 1980) was an American bacteriologist known for co-developing the first successful whooping cough vaccine alongside fellow Michigan Department of Public Health scientist Grace Eldering and chemist Loney Gordon in the 1930s. In the decades after the initial pertussis vaccine rollout, Kendrick contributed to the promotion of international vaccine standards in Latin America and the Soviet Union. 2] Kendrick and her colleagues also developed a 3-in-1 shot for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus called the DTP vaccine which was initially released in 1948.[31 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Kendrick](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0hSat-WYAASeDe.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Wikipedia intro & photo for Pearl Kendrick: Pearl Louella Kendrick (August 24, 1890 - October 8, 1980) was an American bacteriologist known for co-developing the first successful whooping cough vaccine alongside fellow Michigan Department of Public Health scientist Grace Eldering and chemist Loney Gordon in the 1930s. In the decades after the initial pertussis vaccine rollout, Kendrick contributed to the promotion of international vaccine standards in Latin America and the Soviet Union. 2] Kendrick and her colleagues also developed a 3-in-1 shot for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus called the DTP vaccine which was initially released in 1948.[31 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Kendrick
ALT SPER Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Research Reproduction | Pregnancy | Fetal development | Child | Adolescent Health Image: native woman with long brown hair and long bangs smiles at the viewer. She stands in front of a background of pine. She wears long beaded earrings, a black and red embroidered top, and a small necklace. Text below: Jessica Sanigaq Ullrich, MSW, PhD Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health at Washington State University. Tribal Citizen of Nome Eskimo Community Keynote Speaker 36th Annual Meeting Portland, Oregon June 12-13, 2023 "Indigenous Connectedness for Child and Collective Wellbeing"
ALT The cover of this special issue is shown. Community historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape the Evanston’s reparations initiative, points to the borders of the Fifth Ward, which was the area of Evanston the city’s Black citizens were forced to move to due to redlining between 1919 and 1969, in Evanston, Illinois.
