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Dr. Clyde Donnell: Pioneering Public Health Advocate

Learn about Dr. Clyde Donnell, a medical doctor and the VP and Medical Director of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, who dedicated his life to improving the health of the African American community. Explore his work in creating the Life Extension Department and advocating for health education. Discover how his efforts helped shape the insurance practices and health status of Southern blacks.

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Dr. Clyde Donnell: Pioneering Public Health Advocate

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  1. Dr. Clyde Donnell By: Joyvell Henry

  2. Who am I? • Medical Doctor • VP and Medical Director of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance

  3. Where It All Started • Born in August 1890 to Smith and Lula Donnell • Public schools in Greensboro, NC • A.B from Howard in 1911 • M.D from Harvard in 1915 • Interned at Boston City Hospital • Interested in public health problems.

  4. Goal in Life? Help the African American Community

  5. NC Mutual Insurance Company • National death rate was 33% higher • Founded in 1898 by three men; Dr. Aaron Moore, John Merrick, C.C. Spaulding • Goal: improve the health of blacks • Donnell hired in 1917 as medical director • Created “Life Extension Department”

  6. Life Extension Department • Conducted lecture tours, showed films, and distributed health promotion bulletins from state and federal health departments. • Taught individuals about importance of physical examination and the nature of communicable diseases such as scarlet fever, small pox, and measles.

  7. How did it help • No clear decline in mortality • But company made reforms and adopted insurance practices to suit the health status of Southern blacks • NC Mutual became the largest black-owned insurance company in the US

  8. His Legacy • Died at Duke University Medical Center in 1971 • His life’s work illustrates the efforts of blacks to improve the health status through public education.

  9. Sources • Halperin, Edward C. "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dr. Clyde Henry Donnell, and the Health Education of Blacks." NCMJ 56.11 (1995): 570-74 • C, W. M. "Medical History: Dr. Clyde Donnell." Journal of the National Medical Association (1960): 382.

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