Old Rockefeller himself believes that health is the foundation of human well-being, and the development of medicine can solve all problems. Frederick Gates is a medical fan, so Rockefeller's early work is almost all about this. The characteristic of education is to develop and improve medical education. Before the foundation was established, Rockefeller had a health committee to control hookworm disease. After the registration of 19 13, the first important action was to set up the International Ministry of Health under the Foundation and merge this committee. As the name implies, from the beginning, Rockefeller's intention was to internationalize this work. The first task is to spread the hookworm disease prevention and public health work initiated by it to the whole world. 19 17, Rockefeller was the chairman and Vincent was the president. During his ten years in office, the foundation has made great achievements, among which the International Ministry of Health is the biggest focus. The prevention and control of hookworm disease spread all over 62 countries on six continents, and later it developed into the prevention and control of malaria and typhoid fever, and achieved considerable results. At the same time, establish permanent public health institutions in the United States and other countries to engage in a wider range of public health work. Therefore, public health care workers are trained in the United States and other countries in the world. Another task is to improve the medical level. Carnegie Foundation funded a survey aimed at improving American medical education, and produced the famous flexner report, which comprehensively pointed out the weaknesses of the United States compared with advanced European countries. After World War I, the Rockefeller Foundation cooperated with the previously established General Education Association on the basis of this report, striving to improve medical teaching and establish high-level medical schools in the United States and other countries. Johns Hopkins Medical College in the United States is a symbol of the success of this effort and represents the highest level of medical education in the United States at that time. Foreign countries include Britain, France, Belgium, Canada and parts of Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. From 19 17 to 1928, the foundation paid 40 million dollars for this work in Europe, the United States and Canada, and another 10 million dollars was used for secondary medical schools and public health in the United States. As we all know, the famous Union Medical College and its affiliated hospital established in China is the first important overseas project of Rockefeller Foundation in this period, and it is also one of Rockwell's proud masterpieces. From 65438 to 0929, Mei Sen, a former president of the University of Chicago and a mathematical physicist, took over the work. Since then, the Ministry of Medicine (formerly the Ministry of Medical Education), the Ministry of Natural Sciences, the Ministry of Social Sciences and the Ministry of Arts and Humanities have been established one after another. The projects funded by the Foundation still focus on medical science and gradually expand to other fields. There are many personal research achievements funded by Rockefeller Foundation, which are groundbreaking in general. 1928, Fleming, an Englishman, was also funded by Rockefeller Foundation in the research process of inventing penicillin. These achievements have pushed the medical level of the United States and the world forward a big step. During the period of 1932, the Foundation also conducted research on industrial medical treatment (i.e. occupational diseases) and mental illness for the first time, and these two fields have just started. Rockefeller Medical College has made breakthrough achievements in the research of epidemic meningitis, poliomyelitis, yellow fever and syphilis just a few years after its establishment. 1937, the International Ministry of Health announced the successful isolation of yellow fever vaccine (in World War II, the Rockefeller Foundation produced 34 million copies of this vaccine in its laboratory and donated it to the government for military use). From 65438 to 0939, a special kind of malaria was prevalent in Brazil, which was quickly controlled with the help of the Foundation. 1940' s great achievement was to relieve typhoid fever prevalent all over the world at that time. Others, such as genetics, biophysics and biochemistry, as well as the improvement and invention of research instruments, such as detectors and X-ray decomposers, have achieved breakthrough results with the support of the Foundation. Rockefeller Foundation has always attached importance to science, especially medicine and agronomy, and combined scientific research in this field with poverty alleviation work around the world. The outstanding achievements in early medical and health care once made the International Ministry of Health the center of Rockefeller Foundation, and it was criticized by other departments that Rockefeller was mastered by medical scientists and neglected other work. With the change of situation and personnel, the focus of work has gradually shifted, but medical care has always been one of its concerns. The model and work items of the International Ministry of Health founded by Rockefeller Foundation are exemplary. 1948 The United Nations World Health Organization was established and gradually took over the work areas of Rockefeller Foundation; From 65438 to 0950, the US government established the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. The fields and working methods of funding scientific research also follow the model of Rockefeller Foundation, and even take over its projects. 195 1 year, the Rockefeller foundation's international health department closed, and its famous virus research institute and personnel were transferred to Yale university. After that, the foundation achieved its original goal by funding the World Health Organization, which continued until the end of this century. The foundation called it "Rockefeller-WHO Complementary Strategy". Over the years, the Foundation has contributed to the World Health Organization's family planning, vaccination, contraceptive research and the prevention and treatment of tropical diseases. 1997 Brendan, the new director-general of the world health organization, took office, and the foundation announced that it would invest 2.5 million dollars to establish a global health leadership fund for the director-general to select 10 experts from various disciplines around the world for a term of 1 2 years; This fund is also used to "strive for global health equality". The project is dedicated to narrowing the gap between the health level and average life expectancy between developed and underdeveloped countries, including narrowing the health gap between the rich and the poor within a developed country. The project mainly starts from three aspects: (1) assisting poor countries to establish and improve their health systems and strengthen their ability to use information, find problems and solve problems; (2) Strengthen publicity and education to arouse the public's attention to new health-related issues and the government's commitment, such as environment, smoking, AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, etc. (3) Strengthen the research and development of frequently-occurring drugs (such as malaria and tuberculosis) for poor people and transfer them to developing countries to remedy the difficulties caused by high drug prices.