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The diary documents a conference held with Senior Cabrera of Mexico to discuss cooperation with Rockefeller Foundation to help control Typhus Fever in Mexico.

The grants, visits and interviews with professionals in the field of public health focus on prevention of disease. The diary includes updates on International Health Board projects, malaria control through quinine, discussions of effects of World War I and a conference between Dr. Heiser and Dr. Rose regarding South America.

Arranged by interview and visit, this diary documents the meetings and conferences Embree had with various professionals in the field of public health. The Rockefeller Foundation participates in public health and medical education.

With the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory in full operation, Dr. Downs and his team of laboratory technicians and scientists begin a country-wide campaign to collect blood specimens of animals and humans afflicted with undiagnosed fevers and encephalitis. Concentrating on medical—and not clinical—science, Dr. Downs and his team inoculate animals with viral strains (obtained from infected persons) in hopes of identifying the viral agents causing the undiagnosed maladies. Given the ubiquity of encephalitis in this particular time period, Dr. Downs begins to suspect that the country may be on the verge of a Yellow Fever epidemic. By investigating the abnormal dying-off of indigenous monkeys and the loss of five human victims, Dr. Downs and his team successfully isolate strains of Yellow Fever and alert the Trinidadian authorities that it has reemerged. A government vaccination campaign is launched and other South and Central American authorities are warned as well. A conference in Washington is organized in order to address the threat of Yellow Fever in the Americas and in the United States. Dr. Downs is an attendee and speaker at the conference.

Dr. Downs and his personnel at the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory continue to survey the distribution of viral agents and vectors—both insect and mammal—on the island of Trinidad. Human, animal, and mosquito blood specimens are collected in order to identify viral agents and mice are inoculated with the viral agents so that strains may be isolated. In order to acquire human blood specimens from patients with unidentified fevers, Dr. Downs begins to work part-time at the Sangre Grande clinic, exchanging his services as a practitioner for blood specimens. In this manner, a variety of viral strains are isolated including strains of the Ilheus, Dengue and Yellow Fever virus. Further analysis of Yellow Fever consists of a Yellow Fever Immunization Study and medical analysis of patients before and after receiving the Yellow Fever vaccination. All entomological, epidemiological, and laboratory activities from July to December are described in detail in a fortnightly report.

Organized according to interview and visit, Vincent talks to various professionals in the field of public health and discusses projects and proposals. As President of the Rockefeller Foundation he handles the institutional and administrative duties of the Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Board and China Medical Board. The 1920 diary documents Vincent's trip to Canada to oversee and start the Canadian medical education program, further discussions of Peking Union Medical College, and its disease research and preventive programs in tuberculous and yellow fever.

Organized according to interview and visit, Vincent talks to various professionals in the field of public health and discusses projects and proposals. As President of the Rockefeller Foundation he is involved in the institutional and administrative duties of the Rockefeller Foundation, International Health Board and China Medical Board. In 1924, Vincent take a trip to the Near East and Jamaica to survey medical education and facilities, determine need of Rockefeller Foundation assistance, and assess program progress.

The diaries are arranged by interview and visit. From 1924-1926, Sawyer is the director of the International Health Board Public Health Laboratory Service. These entries concern Rockefeller Foundation laboratories, meetings with professionals in the field of public health and conferences pertaining to hookworm. In 1926, Sawyer goes on assignment to the West African Yellow Fever Commission, Lagos, Nigeria. In west Africa he documents laboratory research various field studies on the symptomology and pathology of Yellow Fever Includes "Localities infected with yellow fever in 1926" chart.

Organized according to interview and visit, Gregg discusses projects and proposals with professionals in the field of medical education. He is involved in the progress of the RF programs, selection of RF fellows, development of new projects and financing current and future research. This diary includes an five year outline of an RF program to create a medical facility and train professionals in Bangkok, a general outline of the hookworm campaign in Mexico. Gregg also tours various medical schools, hospitals and laboratories the United States with the Japanese Commission. A trip to Columbia is taken to survey medical education, facilities and practice in Latin America and to ready for the yellow fever campaign in that region.

Organized according to visit and interview, entries for this year record the meetings and conversations that took place between Grant, professionals and students in the field of public health. Entries record his tours of various public health centers in order to assess local public health education development in India. The diary includes "Indian Science Congress Association Program", "Future of University Social Sciences seen through Public Health Report", "Proposed Regulations under Section 32 under the Bengal Nurses Act 10, 1934, for the training and examination of Health Visitors," "School of Tropical Medicine Calcutta Program," "Scheme for the Establishment of a School for Social Service Workers," "Bengal Nutrition Committee of the Sanitary Board Proposed Programme of Work for 1940-1," "The Establishment of a Course for Training Public Health Nurses in India," and "Memorandum on Policy Relating to All India Institute."

As an Assistant Director to the International Health Division, Hackett's diary is arranged according to interview and visit. He holds interviews, conferences, and visits with professionals in the field of medical research. Hackett surveys various medical institutions, laboratories and public health facilities in South America to assess their response to various tropical diseases. He keeps statistics and notes on the various diseases on how they affect the localities.