RARE "Assistant Director WHO" Martha Eliot Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

Up for sale a VERYRARE "Assistant Director of the World Health Organization" Martha Eliot Hand Signed 3X5 Card.This item is certified authentic by ToddMueller sales and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Martha May Eliot(April7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialistinpublic health, anassistant director for WHO, and an architect ofNew Dealand postwar programs for maternal and childhealth. Her first important research, community studies ofricketsin New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico,explored issues at the heart ofsocial medicine. Together withEdwards A. Park, herresearch established that public health measures (dietary supplementationwithvitamin D) could prevent and reverse the early onset ofrickets. Martha May Eliot was ascion of theEliot family, an influential American family that is regarded as one oftheBoston Brahmins, originating in Boston, whose ancestors becamewealthy and held sway over the American education system in the late 19th andearly 20th centuries. Her father,ChristopherRhodes Eliot, was aUnitarianminister, and her grandfather,William G. Eliot, was the first chancellor ofWashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. The poet, playwright, critic, andNobel laureateT.S. Eliotwas her firstcousin.During undergraduate study atBryn Mawr Collegeshe metEthel Collins Dunham, whowas to become her life partner. After completing their undergraduate education,the two enrolled together atJohnsHopkins University School of Medicinein 1914. In1918, Eliot graduated from medical school atJohns Hopkins University.As early as her second year of medical school, Dr. Eliot hoped to become"some kind of social doctor." She taught atYale University's department of pediatrics from 1921 to 1935.For most of these years, Dr. Eliot also directed the National Children's BureauDivision of Child and Maternal Health (1924–1934). She later accepted afull-time position at the bureau, becoming bureau chief in 1951. In 1956, sheleft the bureau to become department chairman of child and maternal healthatHarvard School of PublicHealth. Duringher tenure at the Children's Bureau, Eliot helped establish government programsthat implemented her ideas aboutsocial medicine, and she was responsible for drafting most oftheSocial Security Act'slanguagedealing with maternal and child health. DuringWorld War II, she administered the Emergency Maternity andInfant Care program, which provided maternity care for greater than 1 millionservicemen's wives. After the war, she held influential positions in boththeWorld Health OrganizationandUnited Nations Children'sFund(UNICEF). From 1949 to 1951, Eliot worked as an assistantdirector for WHO in Geneva. In 1959, Martha accepted a post as chair of theMassachusetts Commission on Children and Youth, a position she held for adecade. Sheserved as the chief architect of health provisions for children in the 1935 USSocial Security Act, that mandated that every state establish child healthservices. In 1946, she served as the vice chair of the US delegation to theInternational Health Conference and on behalf of the US, signed theconstitution that established the World Health Organization (she was the onlywoman to sign WHO's constitution).