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Questions over the use of federal funds in the Medical School and the School of Public Health began in 1975, when Dr. Phin Cohen, a researcher and assistant professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health since 1969, was not reappointed to his position. Cohen's salary was based on two NIH grants that he obtained in 1971, but which Harvard allegedly used to pay some expenses not related to the researcher's projects...
...spend his grant money, and was not satisfied by the explanations offered by Dr. Fred Stare, who was then chairman of the Department of Nutrition. Without Stare's knowledge, Cohen went to University officials asking them to conduct an internal audit of the Medical School and School of Public Health grants...
...then requested that HEW conduct a full-scale investigation of grants to the Medical School and the School of Public Health. No action was taken until a year later, when Dr. Cohen's experiences were brought to the attention of a Congressional subcommittee charged with overseeing...
...approximately the same time, April, 1977, Dr. Cohen filed a lawsuit against Harvard, the dean of the School of Public Health, and Dr. Stare. "I think the suit precipated the subsequent HEW audit," Cohen said last night. "It was a long time in coming," he added...
...administrators at the Kennedy School of Government, the name of the Engelhard Library of Public Affairs must seem like a singularly annoying toothache...