BELTSVILLE, MD, January 14, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Deborah Rose, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Rose has cultivated a long and distinguished career in the health care world, working as an epidemiologist for the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. She also currently serves as the president of the Helping Africa Foundation, a public charity dedicated to improving health, education, and social welfare conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
For the past six years, Dr. Rose has worked with a team of colleagues and close friends, based both in Ghana and the United States, to continue to improve computer learning centers, to ensure that they align with a shared vision for sustainable development. The Helping Africa Foundation offers the full West African curriculum, mainly at the junior high school level, using cutting-edge, locally developed information technology as the preferred delivery system. Dr. Rose is also working on developing a model of middle-class and affordable housing in West Africa that closely replicates that which can be found in the United States. Additionally, Dr. Rose has worked closely with The Yamoransa Model, a group that aims to provide an opportunity for students to expand their science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education through practical experience.
Dr. Rose's work with sustainable development activities in the United States is noteworthy as well. It included a site visit in 2024 to the Skyline Correctional Center in Colorado, where her group met with the prisoners, measured the dimensions of the existing computer laboratory, and carried out a needs assessment.
From 2015 to 2023, Dr. Rose was a visiting scholar with Harvard University's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. She also served as a full-time lecturer at the Yale University School of Nursing, an acting instructor at the Yale University Medical School's department of epidemiology and public health, and a teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University's School of Hygiene and Public Health. Furthermore, she is a founding member of the Yale Alumni Service Corps - over the years, the group has made 11 trips to various countries throughout the world to engage in public service work.
After earning a Bachelor of Arts and master's degree in in public health from Yale, Dr. Rose went on to earn a PhD from Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1989. Thirty-four years later, in 2023, due in part to her efforts to improve conditions in Africa, the University of Cape Coast in Ghana awarded Dr. Rose an honorary Doctorate in Education.
Outside of work, Dr. Rose is the president of the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation and is a trustee and the treasurer of the Jonathan Edwards Trust at Yale University. She also serves on the dean's board of advisors at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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