Gift from Rose Gangarosa Funds Rollins Innovation in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

A recent gift made by Rose Gangarosa to the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health will help strengthen the department’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) research. The $1 million gift was announced at a recent meeting of the Rollins Dean’s Council celebrating 50 years of public health at Emory and the 35th anniversary of the school’s founding.

“We are deeply grateful for this generous gift, which will significantly advance our department’s research and training in WASH,” says Yang Liu, PhD, chair of the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health. “We are honored by Rose’s commitment to ensuring our department's continued efforts to generate innovative, evidence-based solutions that promote health equity and improve lives around the world.”

The gift honors Gangarosa’s late husband, Euguene Gangarosa, MD, who was a leading waterborne disease expert and is often considered one of the founding fathers of what is now the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as one of the first directors of Emory’s fledgling public health program in 1982 and founded the Emory Center for Global Safe WASH in 2004.