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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health Management & Policy
Principal Investigator, Philadelphia GROW Project
Director, Witnesses to Hunger
Phone: 215.762.6512
Email: mmc33@drexel.edu |
Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Drexel University School of Public Health. She is the Principal Investigator for The Philadelphia GROW Project – a nutrition and growth initiative for children and their families - and Co-Principal investigator of Children's HealthWatch. She most recently launched Witnesses to Hunger to increase women’s participation in the national dialogue on hunger and poverty.
Dr. Chilton investigates the health impacts of hunger and food insecurity among young children aged zero to three. Her work spans across a variety of issues that affect low-income families to address nutritional wellbeing, public assistance participation, housing instability, and employment. She has testified before the US House of Representatives and the US Senate Agriculture committees to inform policy decisions regarding child nutrition.
Dr. Chilton received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma, and Bachelor or Arts Degree from Harvard University. Her numerous awards include the Young Professional Award in Maternal and Child Health from the American Public Health Association, the Philadelphia Business Journal "40 under 40" Young Professional Award, and the National Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence.
Research Interests: Human rights and health; race, ethnicity & poverty; nutrition and chronic disease; hunger; women and children; complementary and alternative medicine; religion and medicine.
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