How was Tuskegee University (then called Tuskegee Institute) involved?
The U.S. Surgeon General asked Tuskegee Institute to provide care for the men, to assist with the blood tests, x-rays, and to perform autopsies. The Study did have the endorsement of the various medical directors of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital (now closed) on the campus. Autopsies were also done at the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital, a federal facility, now called the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System, Tuskegee-East Campus. Nurse Eunice Rivers Laurie, who worked as the liaison between the men and the PHS, was a Tuskegee Institute graduate who also did work at the Macon County Health Department and taught nursing at the Institute while she worked on the Study.
