Mobile’s commitment to public health has been a component of the city’s illustrious history since its founding in 1702. The Board of Health was officially established in 1816 as the [more]

William Crawford Gorgas was born on October 3, 1854, in Toulminville, Alabama. Gorgas was a pioneer in the field of public health and tropical medicine and his work in eradicating [more]

Montgomery native Percy L. Julian was an internationally acclaimed chemist. The third African American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, he specialized in the chemistry of natural products and their [more]

Luther Leonidas Hill Jr. was a prominent Montgomery physician and pioneering surgeon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In 1902 Hill became the first American physician to perform [more]