Dr. Pearl Tang: Path Breaker in Public Health with Mary Melcher

Mesa Public Library - Main Branch 64 E. 1st Street, Mesa, United States

In 1960, Dr. Pearl Mao Tang became chief of the Maricopa County Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. A Chinese American, who had fought to obtain a medical license in Arizona, Tang was instrumental in lowering the infant mortality rate in the state’s most populous county. Working in the Phoenix metropolitan area and rural Maricopa […]

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