ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author covers his arrival in the USA from China in the late 1930s to early 1987 when he took early retirement from the California State Department of Health Services, where he was responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases, to join Jon Mann at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. The career development program of Division of Special Health Services (DSHS) consisted of a three-year package that would fulfill the requirements for the new Specialty Boards in Public Health or Preventive Medicine. The Hooper Foundation established its preeminence early in the field of infectious diseases and diseases transmitted to man by animals. One of the most interesting and exciting field studies he was involved with during author time at the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) was the investigation of the cholera outbreak in Malacca in 1963. The initial cases of cholera were most likely from barter traders from the straits of Malacca to Malaysia.
