Abstract:
The proceedings of the IXth Public Health and Research
Conference in Gondar is a revival of the scientific traditions of
the past two decades when the present Gondar College of Medical
Sciences was known as the Public Health College.
of the conferences of the 1960s were to provide intern health
officers with a forum to share and synthesize their experiences
in rural health centres with fellow students and faculty members.
In 1966 the annual seminar for pre-intern and intern health
officers was broadened into a conference and that became the first
ever public health conference to be held on the very same grounds
of this present Gondar College of Medical Sciences. This was a .
historic moment. Papers presented at this conference were related
to research and policy in the health care field and were the core
articles for the first issue of the "Journal of Health" the
sequel to "Gondar Health Series:" In the editorial on the objec-
tives of the journal, the publication of the results of inquiries
with broad inter-profession and cross-disciplinary sc
