Mamdouha bobst biography

Mamdouha El-Sayed Bobst of Palm Beach and New York City died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, in her New York City apartment.

She was 90.

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Mamdouha bobst biography

Bobst, a former United Nations delegate, public health advocate and philanthropist, was a lifelong resident of Palm Beach.

She was born in 1925 in Tripoli, Lebanon, graduated from The American University of Beirut in 1947 and earned a master’s degree in public health education from the University of California-Berkeley a few years later.

She began her career in Libya, where she worked as a health adviser to the government and helped develop the national public health program.

Soon after, she was appointed as a Lebanese delegate to the United Nations, and was one of only a few women to assume such a post.

In 1961, she married Elmer Bobst, a businessman and pharmaceutical executive who shared her interest in public health.

He was a leader in the war on cancer and a driving force b