‘100 Years: Celebrating NM’s Health’ Exhibit on Display at Domenici Center

An exhibit titled “100 Years: Cel­e­brat­ing New Mexico’s Health” will be dis­played in UNM’s Domenici Cen­ter for Health Sci­ences Edu­ca­tion, located at 1001 Stan­ford N.E., begin­ning on Oct. 3. UNM’s Health Sci­ences Library and Infor­mat­ics Cen­ter (HSLIC) devel­oped the exhibit, which will be on dis­play through Aug. 31, 2013 from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. in the Domenici Center’s audi­to­rium lobby.

“This exhibit presents sto­ries about major devel­op­ments in health that have shaped New Mexico’s his­tory through­out the past cen­tury,” says exhibit cura­tor Laura Hall. Top­ics include state pub­lic health offi­cials’ first call into action in address­ing the Span­ish influenza out­break of 1918; the tuber­cu­lo­sis sana­to­rium move­ment; and devel­op­ments in mater­nal care, includ­ing mid­wifery, dur­ing the 20th Century.

In con­junc­tion with the exhibit’s open­ing, HSLIC will host a recep­tion for health care prac­ti­tion­ers, friends of the library and other vis­i­tors. The recep­tion will be held in the Domenic Center’s audi­to­rium lobby on Octo­ber 3, 4–6 p.m. The pub­lic is wel­come to attend; refresh­ments will be provided.

The recep­tion will fea­ture a view­ing of five short films pro­duced by the New Mex­ico Depart­ment of Health between 1935 and 1938. The films are held in the New Mex­ico State Archives and doc­u­ment the care of New Mex­i­cans dur­ing an impor­tant time in our history.

“In the 1930s, New Mexico’s pub­lic health pro­grams were begin­ning to set the stan­dard for oth­ers to fol­low,” explains Hall. “The 1935 film­Malaria in New Mex­i­co­high­lights the lat­est meth­ods used at that time to con­trol the spread of malaria. Accord­ing to one fed­eral offi­cial, New Mexico’s dust­ing oper­a­tion was the most exten­sive in the world.” Other films include­Com­mu­nity San­i­ta­tion in New Mexico,A Well Baby Home Visit,Materials Car­ried in the New Mex­ico Pub­lic Health Nurse’s Bagand­San­i­tary Improve­ments in New Mexico.

Spon­sors for the “100 Years” exhibit and recep­tion include the New Mex­ico Med­ical Soci­ety, the UNM Col­lege of Nurs­ing, the UNM Foun­da­tion and the HSC Office of Diversity.

Vis­i­tors to the exhibit and recep­tion may park in UNM’s “M” lot at Tucker and Yale and use metered park­ing. Visit map and dri­ving direc­tions for more information.

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact Laura Hall, exhibit cura­tor, at (505) 272‑6518 or LJHall@salud.unm.edu. To RSVP for the recep­tion, con­tact Lib­bye Mor­ris at (505) 272‑6975 or LAMorris@salud.unm.edu.