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Deborah Rose
Deborah Rose (68-71) is an American epidemiologist focusing on chronic disease and philanthropist.

Education
Dr. Rose is received her undergraduate degree from Yale College in 1972, transferring to the University following the new coeducation policy. Dr. Rose went on to graduate from the Yale School of Public Health (1977), and the Yale Graduate School for Arts and Sciences (1989). Dr. Rose also earned her Masters in Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Career
Dr. Rose has spent her career addressing public health issues across the globe:"She has spent over 20 years designing and analyzing data from the US National Health Interview Survey focusing on 1990 Health Objectives, Healthy People 2010, tobacco use, Hispanic health, and advising the Ministries of Health of Hungary, Mexico, and Taiwan on best practices for their health interview surveys. She also was the first to advise the National Health Interview Survey of Mexico asking Mexican women about breast cancer screening practices. The resulting module uncovered the previously hidden epidemic of female breast cancer in that country. Two of her current projects are (1) co-chairing a conference on the formulation, assignment, protection, and use of national identification number systems, to be held at Harvard in November 2015 and (2) working with the University of Cape Coast, the Yale Alumni Service Corps, and the community of Yamoransa, Ghana, to bring computing, clean water, and sanitation to this crossroads village. In this capacity she is enstooled as Nana Abena Nkosuo Hemaa (Queen Mother for Development)."

Philanthropy
Dr. Rose funds the Rose Service Learning Fellowship at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, Dr. Rose endows the Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics, which mission "is to give graduate students and postdocs in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a cross-cultural experience, which could be in a developed country or a developing country." Together with her family, Dr. Rose made a donation to Yale University to build the Rose Center, a combined Yale University Police Station and community center for the people of New Haven, CT.