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Exhibit 053

Contributors: The Rockefeller Foundation

Exhibit 053 · Agency web page

Contributors: The Rockefeller Foundation

The Foundation participated as an observer at the first International Health Conference in June 1946, where WHO’s constitution was signed and the Organization became the first specialized agency of the United Nations.

The WHO states that the Rockefeller Foundation attended the first International Health Conference in June 1946 as an observer, that the partnership goes back to the WHO's beginnings, and that the Foundation's contributions total more than US$25.6 million since 2000. The Foundation was admitted as a non-State actor in official relations with the WHO in January 2022.

Source
World Health Organization
Date
n.d. (current page)
Quoted from
WHO contributor page, "Celebrating over 70 years of collaboration" (content last updated 20 April 2022)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.who.int/about/funding/contributors/the-rockefeller-foundation
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding MED-2.4
Peer-reviewed Many delegates at the 1946 conference that founded the WHO were Rockefeller fellows; a Rockefeller staff member ran its office for the Americas, and a former Rockefeller fellow led the WHO from 1953 to 1973.