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 research administrative and regulatory records generated during the forty-year follow-up study of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development. Records consist of: subject participation records, including subject lists, correspondence, and signed consent and release forms; codebooks; and draft and blank survey instruments, questionnaires, and worksheets. Series also includes administrative correspondence and computer software manuals.

Attached to the "Administrative and Regulatory Records, 1970-1980" 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 and Use: The series represented by this dataset includes longitudinal patient information that is restricted for 80 years from the most recently dated records in the collection, and Harvard University records that are restricted for 50 years from the date of record creation. 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