1909 – The Rockefeller Commission was established to rid the South of hookworm
The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (RSC) was a separate organization created to eradicate hookworm disease in the American South. The work of the RSC was the first major attempt at disease eradication, and it provided a model for future work of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and its associated organizations, like the International…
