Organized according to visit and interview, entries for this year record the meetings and conversations that took place between Grant, professionals and students in the field of public health. Entries record his tours of various public health centers and selection process of fellowship applicants. He surveys various public health institutions in the East for the RF's China program. The diary focuses building medical and public health education in the East.

Organized according to visit and interview, entries for this year record the meetings and conversations that took place between Grant, professionals and students in the field of public health. Grant continues to focus on social medicine and its relation to medical care. He visits various organizations and institutions associated with social medicine and discussed teaching of hospital and medical care administration, medical economics and medical care. He becomes director of the European region of RF IHD and begins to organize plans to create various public health schools in Europe. Some of the programs detailed in this diary include the mosquito eradication program on Sardinia, the Crete program, a venereal disease project, building up Scandinavian public health care and a sanitation research study. The diary includes an index and a document entitled "Provisions for the Study of Organization and Administration of Medical Care Programs." Also includes a published document entitled, "Projet de Loi relatif a l'ecole et association d'infirmieres."

Organized according to interview and visit, Hackett discusses projects and proposals with professionals in the field of public health. He is involved in the progress of the RF programs, development of new projects and financing current and future research. Hackett assess various tropical diseases in South America and the local response to these outbreaks. He surveys and tours various health facilities, laboratories and medical schools. Hackett continues to assist in the creation of local South American public health infrastructure. Hackett attends Interdivisional Conference on Population Problems, and an APHA meeting. Documentation on the DDT experiments is included as well. Includes photographs, a map entitled, "Plague Regions in Bolivia", a map entitled, "Bolivia Distribution of Malaria." Included also are updates and excerpts from RF staff member diaries.

1948 Index; 23 pages.