Awards & Winners

Martha May Eliot

Date of Birth 1891
Place of Birth Massachusetts
(New England, United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States)
Nationality
Martha May Eliot, 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 could prevent and reverse the early onset of rickets.

Awards by Martha May Eliot

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1948


Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service
(For administrative achievement in the organization and operation of the Emergency Maternal and Infant Care Program.)