Wickliffe Rose
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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]
