Dr. Nina Bleiberg

Title: Dr.
Prename: Nina
Surname: Bleiberg
Profession: Physician
Birthday: 12/14/1911
Place of birth: Kałusz, Poland (now Ukraine)
Date of death: 2002
Place of death: New York
Education: University studies (medicine, psychology) in Vienna, specializes in children’s speech-language pathology; July 21, 1938, awarded “Non-Aryan” doctorate, simultaneously banned from working anywhere in Germany
Career: 1939 emigrates to Britain with help of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW), supported by BFUW members in Manchester; domestic worker, subsequently BFUW scholarship to train as a midwife; spring 1940 emigrates to the United States, lives in New York City; 1948 certification in pediatrics; 1958–65 (possibly longer) head of the infant and preschool division, New York City Department of Health
Memberships: Fellow of the American Public Health Association
Major works: “Group Discussions with Mothers in the Child Health Conference” (with Susanne Forrest), *Pediatrics* 24 (1959), no. 1: 118–25; “Young Unmarried Mothers in Child Health Stations of Two New York City Districts” (with Harold Jacobziner, Herbert Rich, and Roland Merchant), *Am J Public Health Nations Health* 52 (1962), no. 12: 2030–2040; “How Well Are Well Children” (with Harold Jacobziner, Herbert Rich, and Roland Merchant), *Am J Public Health Nations Health* 53 (1963), no. 12: 1937–1952; “The Neglected Child and the Child Health Conference,” *N Y State J Med.* 65 (1965): 1880–1885
Links: [Gedenkbuch, Universität Wien](http://gedenkbuch.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=435&no_cache=1&person_single_id=22787&person_name=&person_geburtstag_tag=not_selected&person_geburtstag_monat=not_selected&person_geburtstag_jahr=not_selected&person_fakultaet=not_selected&person_kategorie=&person_volltextsuche=&search_person.x=1&result_page=12)