Martha May Eliot | |
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| Born | April 7, 1891 |
| Died | February 14, 1978 (aged 86) |
| Education | |
| Employer(s) | Yale University
National Children's Bureau Division of Child and Maternal Health Harvard School of Public Health |
| Spouse | Ethel Collins Dunham |
| Awards | Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service John Howland Award |
Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin D) could prevent and reverse the early onset of rickets.[1]
- ^ "Martha May Eliot, M.D." Center for Disease Control. Retrieved 2009-06-11.