Marsden wagner biography

Marsden Wagner (23 February 1930 – 27 April 2014),^[1] was a perinatologist and perinatal epidemiologist from California who served as a Director of Maternal and Child Health for the California State Health Department, Director of the University of Copenhagen-UCLA Health Research Center, and Director of Women's and Children's Health for the World Health Organization.

He was an outspoken supporter of midwifery.

Career

Marsden Wagner was born in 1930 in San Francisco.

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He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, earning an M.D., clinical specialty training in pediatrics, perinatology (neonatology and obstetrics) and an advanced scientific degree in perinatal science. Following several years of full-time clinical practice and some years as a full-time faculty member at UCLA, he became a Director of Maternal and Child Health for the California State Health Department.

After six years in Denmark as Director of the University of Copenhagen-U