ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

This dataset represents a group of paper records (a "series") within the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), which can be accessed on-site at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. The series consists of subject participation records, personnel records, regulatory records, and other research administrative records, generated during the thirty-year follow-up study of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development.

Subject participation records include subject lists, appointment scheduling records, and correspondence. Personnel records consist of curricula vitae, recruitment records, and employment-related correspondence. Regulatory records consist of: protocols and methodologies; codebooks; and blank data collection instruments. Administrative records also include: report drafts; collected resources; and correspondence. Some records are in French.

Attached to the "Administrative and Regulatory Records, 1943-1979" dataset are files, digitized from their original paper copies, that serve as examples of the records that may be found in the series. Additional data and associated records are accessible onsite at the Center for the History of Medicine per the conditions governing access described below.

Conditions Governing Access to Original Collection Materials: The series represented by this dataverse includes longitudinal patient information that is restricted for 80 years from the most recently dated records in the collection, personnel information that is restricted for 80 years from the date of record creation, and Harvard University records that are restricted for 50 years from the date of record creation. The end of the restricted period is noted with each folder. Researchers should contact Public Services for more information.

The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records were processed with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as awarded and administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2016. An online finding aid to the collection may be accessed here: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00211