Mariana Chilton
Professor
Health Management and Policy
Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory
United States of America
Biography
"Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, is a Professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She is the Director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities and is Co-Principal investigator of Children's HealthWatch, a national research network that investigates the impact of public assistance programs on the health and well-being of young children and their caregivers. Dr. Chilton founded Witnesses to Hunger, a movement to increase women's participation in the national dialogue on hunger and poverty. She is Principal Investigator of the Building Wealth and Heath Network, which is designed to incentivize entrepreneurship and self-sufficiency in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Her research publications address trauma, food insecurity and the advancement of the human rights framework to advise the right to food in the US. Most recently she served as the Co-Chair of the Bi-partisan National Commission on Hunger, where she was appointed to advise Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture on how to end hunger in America. "
Research Interest
Nutrition, Community Engaged Research, Health Disparities, Health Policy
Publications
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"Sun, J.*, Knowles, M.*, Patel, F.*, Frank, DA, Heeren, T, Chilton, MM. Childhood adversity and adult reports of food insecurity among households with children. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. May 2016, Volume 50 (5): pp 561-572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2015.09.024 "
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"Chilton, MM, Knowles, M*, Bloom, S.,. The intergenerational circumstances of household food insecurity and adversity. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. May 2016, pp. 1-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19320248.2016.1146195 "
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Sun, J.*, Patel, F.*, Kirzner, R, Newton-Famous, N., Owens, C*, Welles, S., Chilton, MM. The Building Wealth and Health Network: Methods and Baseline Characteristics from a randomized controlled trial for families with young children participating in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)" BMC Public Health, 2016, 16:583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3233-4
