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About Martha May Eliot
Martha May Eliot, was an American pediatrician. She was a 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 could prevent and reverse the early onset of rickets.
Everything about Martha May Eliot →- Occupation
- physician, pediatrician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 7, 1891
- Died
- February 14, 1978