Exhibit 024 ยท Archive institutional history
Public Health: How the Fight Against Hookworm Helped Build a System
In 1909, John D. Rockefeller established the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (RSC) with a gift of $1 million.
The archive's history of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease. It dates the Commission and its $1 million founding gift to 1909, describes infected parents as "often unable to work," and records that Wickliffe Rose moved from the Commission to direct the Rockefeller Foundation's international health program from 1915.
- Source
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Date
- Undated web resource
- Quoted from
- Section "Philanthropy and the South"
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://resource.rockarch.org/story/public-health-how-the-fight-against-hookworm-helped-build-a-system/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit