{"id":39517,"date":"2013-06-21T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=39517"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:23:47","slug":"melvin-delgado","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/melvin-delgado\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Delgado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Delgado is a Professor of Social Work and Chair of the Department of Macro Practice. His current research emphasis is on Latino and other marginalized urban population groups, youth development, community-capacity enhancement and non-traditional urban settings. Professor Delgado&#8217;s most recent book is \u201cSocial Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis: Implications for Social Work,\u201d which discusses obesity among colored populations from individual, family, group, community, and policy perspectives<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70642,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/39517\/revisions\/70642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}