Wickliffe Rose

Wickliffe Rose (November 19, 1862 in Saulsbury, Tennessee – September 5, 1931 in British Columbia^[1]) was the first director of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and won the Public Welfare Medal in 1931.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Rose became director of the Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm in the South (southern United States) in 1910.^[5] He worked for the foundation until 1914.^[6]

Rose died of heart disease.^[7]

References

^ "Wickliffe Rose papers (FA032)". DIMES: The Online Collections and Catalog of the Rockefeller Archive Center. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
^ "Welcome - the Rockefeller Foundation: A Digital History".
^ "The Papers of Wickliffe Rose". Archivesearch. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
^ "Wickliffe Rose". Retrieved October 26, 2019.
^ Flexner, Simon (1932). "Wickliffe Rose: 1862-1931". Science. 75 (1950): 504–506. Bibcode:1932Sci....75..504F. doi:10.1126/science.75.1950.504. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1657527. PMID 17843845.
^ Acheson, Roy M. (1992). Wickliffe Rose of the Rockefeller Foundation : 1862-1914, the formative years. Cambridge [England]: Killycarn Press. ISBN 0-9518908-0-8. OCLC 33865015.
^ "DR. WICKLIFFE ROSE DIES ON WOOD TRAIL; Ex-Official of Rockefeller Foundations Succumbs on Canadian Fishing Trip.ON BOARDS 1910 TO 1928 New Yorker Served as Director of Health and Education Work Here and Abroad". The New York Times. 1931-09-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-17.

Science and philanthropy: Wickliffe Rose and the International Education Board. Robert E. Kohler. Minerva (Impact Factor: 1.24). 02/1985; 23(1):75-95. DOI: 10.1007/BF01097841 Source: PubMed