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Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention
Phone: 215.762.6512
Email: mmc33@drexel.edu |
Mariana Chilton received her A.B. from Harvard University, her Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Her community and research activities have centered on cultural, ethical and historical issues in American Indian and African American Health. With American Indians in Oklahoma, she has explored how physicians' values and American Indian health beliefs, behaviors and practices affect medical decision-making and the experience of illness.
Her newest areas of research include assessing the health impacts of hunger and food insecurity in the Philadelphia area. This community-based research focuses on women and children, nutritional status and human rights. Dr. Chilton is now the Principal Investigator of the Philadelphia GROW Project. This project provides multidisciplinary services for children with failure to thrive at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, and consists of a research endeavor that tracks the wellbeing of infants and toddlers in relation to their caregivers' participation in federal assistance programs.
She currently teaches Health Behavior and Community Health in the full time Master's of Public Health program, and Health and Human Rights in the Doctoral Program (DrPH).
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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