University Writing Program
Affiliated Faculty: MISPH
Jameta Nicole Barlow, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Writing
Jeffrey Bingenheimer, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Prevention and Community Health
Nemata Blyden, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Naomi Cahn, JD
Harold H. Greene Chair
Topic areas include: Marriage Markets: Gender and Income Inequality; The Honor Commandment and Elder Care; Gender, Sexual Violence, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Amanda D. Castel, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Program Co-Director, Master of Science in Public Health, Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Topic areas include: HIV among Women in Washington, DC (or nationally); Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
Jillian Catalanotti, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy; Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Manuel Contreras-Urbina, PhD
Director of Research
Global Women's Institute
Topic areas include: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Research on Gender-Based Violence; What Works to Prevent Gender-Based Violence?; International Agenda on Women's Rights
Cynthia Deitch, PhD
Associate Professor
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, and Public Policy
Jehan El-Bayoumi, MD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Medicine; Founding Director, Rodham Institute
Medical Faculty Associates / School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Topic areas include: Domestic Violence; Health Equity in DC; Medical Education
Mary A. Foulkes, PhD
Research Professor
Research Professor, Biostatistics Center; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Department of Health Policy
Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD
University Professor
University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of American Studies (joint appointment in Milken Institute SPH's Department of Health Policy and Management)
Karen E. George, MD, MPH, FACOG
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical Faculty Associates / School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Mimi Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatstics
Topic areas include: Biological mechanisms of sexual transmission of HIV in women; HIV immune responses in postmenopausal women; HIV immune responses in women experiencing sexual violence
Phyllis Goldfarb, JD, LLM
Professor
Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Rachelle S. Heller, PhD
Research Professor and Director
Elizabeth J. Somers Women’s Leadership Program; Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Mount Vernon Campus; Professor, Computer Science, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Sara Imershein, MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Prevention & Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health
Topic areas include: Abortion in America: Patients, Politics and Procedures; Contraception: The Methods and the Madness; and From Population Control to Civil Rights: the History of the Reproductive Rights Movement
Carly Jordan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Women's Leadership Program, Science, Health & Medicine Cohort; Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Jennifer Keller, MD, MPH
Director
Director, Residency Program, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management; Director, Center for Health Policy Research
Topic areas include: Budget issues in health policy, immigrant health care, DC's health insurance exchange: DC Health Link
Beverly K. Lunsford, PhD, RN, CNS-BC
Director
Center for Aging, Health and Humanities; Director, Washington Area Geriatric Education Center Consortium (WAGECC); Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Anne Rossier Markus, PhD, JD
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Karen McDonnell, PhD
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Prevention and Community Health; Director, DrPH Program in Health Behavior
Topic areas include: HIV, DV, Substance Use, Poverty: Looking at women's health through a syndemic lens; Gender Based Violence (Latina, programs, community); Chronic Pelvic Pain: It's not all in my head
Katherine (Holly) Mead, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Barbara Miller, PhD
Professor, Director
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs; Director, Institute for Global and International Studies; Director, Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program; Director, Global Gender Program
Daniel Moshenberg, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Department of English and Women's Studies
Chavon M. Onumah, MD, MPH, FACP, AAHIVS
Director, Primary Care Clerkship; Assistant Professor of Medicine
General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Melissa Perry, ScD, MHS
Professor and Chair
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Whitney Pinger, CNM, MSN, FACN
Founder and Past Director, GW Midwifery
Midwifery Services; Associate Clinical Professor, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Topic areas include: Cesarean Prevention; Midwifery Pearls: Evidence for Clinical Practice; Midwifery in general
Patricia (Polly) Pittman, PhD
Professor and Institute Director
Department of Health Policy and Management; Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
Monica S. Ruiz, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Prevention and Community Health
Naomi Seiler, JD
Associate Research Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Topic areas include: Affordable Care Act and public health; HIV policy; and public health law
Anushree Vichare, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Amita Vyas, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Department of Prevention and Community Health; Director, Maternal and Child Health Program
Maranda Ward, EdD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Leana S. Wen, MD, MSc
Visiting Professor and Distinguished Fellow
Department of Health Policy and Management; Fitzhugh Mullan Institute of Health Workforce Equity
Susan F. Wood, PhD
Research Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Executive Director, Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health
Topic areas include: Women's Health and Health Care Reform; Emergency Contraception: FDA Policy and Action; Family Planning Services at Community Health Centers
Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH
Professor and Policy Researcher
Professor and Health Services and Policy Researcher, School of Nursing (with joint appointment at the Milken Institute SPH)
Ami R. Zota, ScD, MS
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health