American Social Health Association
The American Social Health Association (ASHA) is an American non-profit organization established early 20th century, and currently active on issues concerning sexually transmitted diseases.
History
ASHA's roots stretch back to the Progressive-era social purity movement. In 1911 two major purity organizations the American Purity Alliance and the American Vigilance Committee[1] joined to form the American Vigilance Association. Groups that were more medically-oriented elected in 1910 Prince A. Morrow as president of the American Federation for Sex Hygiene. After Morrow's death in 1913 both organizations[2] (and tendencies) merged to form the American Social Hygiene Association, which was renamed in 1914[citation needed] to the American Social Health Association.
Initial influential figures:
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (initial financial contributor)
- Charles William Eliot (president of Harvard University)
- Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House)
- William Snow (Stanford University professor and secretary of the California State Board of Health)
- Thomas Hepburn (leader of the Connecticut social hygiene movement)
- David Starr Jordan (chancellor of Stanford University)
- James Cardinal Gibbons (Baltimore, philanthropist)
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References/footnotes
- ↑ Founded by Jane Addams, Grace Dodge and David Starr Jordan oa. in 1906.
- ↑ Including the American Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, founded by Morrow in 1905.