Puerto Rican History of Health Goes Digital

FAIN: AC-295666-24

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus (San Juan, PR 00936-5067)
Efrain Flores-Rivera (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

A two-year project to digitize primary documents related to the history of medicine and public health in Puerto Rico and their incorporation into multiple courses. 

This project will promote the humanities on the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) by expanding “Libraria”, the Historical Repository for Health Science Information in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and its implementation as a teaching resource for seven courses taught at UPR-MSC. The expanded digital repository will also be a vital resource for an elective course on the history of health in Puerto Rico that the proponents of this project will create and offer with the collaboration of the Library's Special Collections section, the UPR-MSC Institute of History of Health Sciences, and the Museum of Pharmacy and Medicinal Plants of the School of Pharmacy.