Marilyn Gaston

Marilyn Hughes Gaston (born 31 January 1939)[1][2] is a physician and researcher. She was the first black woman to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.[3] She is most famous for her work studying sickle cell disease (SCD).

  1. ^ Profile of Marilyn Hughes Gaston
  2. ^ https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/gaston-marilyn-hughes [bare URL]
  3. ^ “Marilyn Hughes Gaston Biography.” Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians , National Institutes of Health/U.S. National Library of Medicine, 3 June 2015, cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_124.html.