About Wickliffe Rose
Lived 1862 – 1931 (aged 68–69). Wickliffe Rose was an American physician and pedagogue.
Wickliffe Rose (November 19, 1862 in Saulsbury, Tennessee – September 5, 1931 in British Columbia was the first director of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and won the Public Welfare Medal in 1931.
Rose became director of the Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm in the South (southern United States) in 1910. He worked for the foundation until 1914.
Rose died of heart disease.
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Who was Wickliffe Rose?
American public health administrator and philosophy professor
When was Wickliffe Rose born?
Wickliffe Rose was born in 1862 in Saulsbury.
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Wickliffe Rose died in 1931.
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Wickliffe Rose was a physician and pedagogue.
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Wickliffe Rose was American.
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