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The ultimate objective of the program is to develop research methodology by means of which the occurrence of a particular disease may be correlated with a variety of sociological, physical and environmental factors such as population density, races, ethnic groups, altitude, temperature, humidity, character of the soil, agricultural products, possible insect vectors and animal reservoirs of disease. The immediate objective of the program is to provide data in the form of disease distribution maps and atlases, showing prevalence, incidence, and severity of specific infectious diseases throughout the world., Rept. on Mapping of Disease (MOD) Project.

The Levi Coffin house was the first structure in Indiana to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1966). Levi Coffin (1798-1877), a Quaker from North Carolina, moved with his family to Fountain City in 1826 and became a leading merchant and miller. He built the home in 1839. Five years later he began selling only free labor-produced articles in his store.The house has been named one of the top 25 most historic sites in the U.S. by the History Channel. More than 2,000 slaves were ushered to freedom through the home known as the Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad. He moved to Cincinnati in 1847 and during the Civil War became a general agent for the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, raising funds for aiding the liberated Afro-Americans.