Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
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The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library is an academic medical library at Yale University, serving Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Nursing, and Yale New Haven Health. The library provides research support services including bioinformatics, evidence synthesis and systematic reviews, research data management, statistical consultation, and scholarly communication assistance. It also houses special collections including the Medical Historical Library and the Cushing Center.
Funding Opportunities
Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM'57 Research Travel Grant
The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University offers an annual Research Travel award for use of the Historical Library. This grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers outside of Yale who wish to use the Historical collections of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. In any given year the award provides up to $2,000 for one week of research. Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada. The Medical Historical Library holds one of the country's largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets, with special strengths in the works of historical medical figures and topics including anatomy, anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation. The award honors Ferenc A. Gyorgyey, former Historical Librarian who served from 1962 to 1994, and Stanley Simbonis, M.D., a 1953 Yale College and 1957 Yale School of Medicine graduate who endowed a fund supporting the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Both believed in supporting scholarly research and access to historical medical collections.
Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical and Postmortem Photographic History
The Stanley B. Burns M.D. Fellowship for the Study of Medical and Postmortem Photographic History supports the study of the history of medical and postmortem photography at Yale University. The fellowship maximizes the research potential of the Stanley B. Burns, MD, Historic Medical Photography Collection and the Stanley B. Burns, MD, collection of postmortem and memorial photography and ephemera housed at the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. Dr. Burns donated his postmortem and memorial photography collection in 2025, which is now included under the parameters of the fellowship. The fellowship welcomes applications from all interested researchers, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research are encouraged as are applications from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research using the Burns collections and related visual collections at the Medical Historical Library.
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- library.medicine.yale.edu
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