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After the war, he came to Harvard as a professor of microbiology and quickly was appointed head of HSPH’s new Department of Public Health Bacteriology. In October 1954, a few months after the death of then-Dean James S. Simmons, Snyder was appointed dean of HSPH...
During the Second World War, Snyder served in the Army Medical Corps and helped develop new treatments for typhus. He was appointed to the U.S. Typhus Commission by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and during the course of his work contracted the disease...
...addition to raising money and expanding the campus physically, Snyder also worked to add professors to the HSPH faculty and widen the scope of the school’s curriculum into emerging fields such as demography and human ecology...
...many things,” said Dr. Thomas H. Weller, who was Strong professor of tropical public health when Snyder was dean. “He built up a very solid faculty department and student body. He was a very hard working, very honest, very dedicated individual...
...Snyder had long taken a personal interest in studying demographics and human population growth, and as dean he founded departments on behavioral sciences, demography and human ecology. He established two new professorships in those fields—two of almost a dozen new HSPH professorships that were endowed under his watch...