The Gangarosa Family Endows a Chair at the AUB, Faculty Health Sciences

The Gangarosa family recently made a gift to AUB to establish the Gangarosa Family Endowed Chair for Safe Water and Sanitation. “All of us at AUB are deeply grateful to the Gangarosa family for this extraordinary gift that will support ongoing and critically important efforts at FHS to address issues related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in the Global South, focusing especially on the needs of the Arab world,” said President Fadlo Khuri. The Gangarosa Chair at FHS will work closely with Dr. Christine Moe, the Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and the director of the Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene at Emory University. “Gene and Rose Gangarosa have amazing vision, persistence, and generosity. They have planted ‘WASH seeds’ at several academic institutions which will grow and strengthen public health capacity in WASH research, training, and problem-solving for decades. We look forward to building our ties with AUB and FHS to tackle WASH challenges in the Middle East and the Global South,” said Moe. Gangarosa hopes that the Gangarosa Chair at AUB will lead eventually to the establishment of a WASH Center at AUB – and that it and the WASH Center at Emory University will be part of a network of WASH centers around the world helping to make “our global village a better place.

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