Virginia M. Alexander educated at Yale University
Public health career
The field of public health gained popularity in the years leading up to World War II, and Alexander was one of the first people to acquire a Masters Degree in Public Health. Alexander was admitted to Yale University in 1936 to study public health, where she earned her degree in 1937. Shortly after leaving Yale, she accepted a position at Howard University as an assistant university physician for women students.Alexander worked with the US Public Health Service from 1943 to 1945 at the Slossfield Clinic located in Birmingham, Alabama. Afterwards, she returned to Philadelphia where she resumed her medical practice in addition to working with local Quakers on race relations.
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