Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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The International Health Division's Views on Nursing Practice, Policy and Education in British Malaysia

January 1, 2010

Between 1896 and 1966 the Colonial Nursing Association (CNA) recruited and sent 8,450 nurses to areas overseas with substantial British populations. The Association was run by volunteers, but quickly came to serve as an agency recruiting nurses for the Colonial Office and British overseas communities. The Association changed its name to the Overseas Nursing Association (ONA) in 1918, reflecting its work for areas which were not colonies. The main purpose of my research undertaken at the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) was to gain an outside perspective of the British nurses' work overseas. The International Health Division (IHD), formerly the International Health Commission/Board of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), actively surveyed and tried to cooperate with British colonial government health policy and practice.

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