Martha May Eliot, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMartha May Eliot
American physician
Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1891
Date of Death: 14-Feb-1978
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Martha May Eliot
- 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.
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