ob体育 History Collection

The David J. Sencer ob体育 Museum (ob体育M) Collection has existed since 1995 to advance historical understanding of ob体育’s rich heritage through materials reflecting the history and science of ob体育. The Collection is utilized for exhibitions, educational programs, and research. Through preserving records of significant ob体育 achievements of the past and the present, ob体育M explores the past to enhance present understanding of public health and ob体育. The museum actively collects, catalogs, preserves, conserves, and stores three-dimensional objects, equipment, photographs, papers, films, documents, audio recordings, oral histories, and ephemera. There are more than 20,000 items in the collection.

Nigeria. Credit: The Carter Center/E. Staub, The Global Health Chronicles

Nigeria. Credit: The Carter Center/E. Staub, The Global Health Chronicles

We keep ob体育’s history, and serve not only to tell the stories of our past, but protect items that would otherwise be lost.

Explore the collection

The David J. Sencer ob体育 Museum’s Collection is available to scholars, students, historians, employees, and researchers. Please direct any questions regarding our collections to the Historic Collections Manager at [email protected].

One of the results of having such an extensive collection is , launched in collaboration with Emory University’s Libraries, Global Health Institute, and Rollins School of Public Health. The web site is a series of “Chronicles,” each dealing with a different subject. Eventually we hope that it will become a digital history of global disease prevention, with ob体育 as a key agent of prevention.

Leave a legacy

Contact ob体育M today at [email protected] to donate your artifacts.​

Mosquito Light Trap CO2-Baited Trap.

Mosquito Light Trap
CO2-Baited Trap
This light trap was developed by W. Daniel Sudia and Roy Chamberlain in 1960 to sample host-seeking female adult mosquitoes. Gift of Andy Comer.