Editors: PAUL A. HARPER, M.D..
DR. ERNEST L. STEBBINS, whose communication appears below, is Professor of Public Health Administration and Director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has previously worked as epidemiologist and District Health Officer in State Health Departments and has held the position of Assistant Commissioner of Health in New York State and Commissioner of Health in New York City. He was at one time professor of epidemiology at Columbia University. He is secretary of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and holds numerous other committee and board memberships.