Principal Investigators

Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator and Professor
wc9@columbia.edu

Wendy Chavkin is the Co-Principal Investigator of the project and is a Professor of Clinical and Public Health and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Columbia University. For over two decades, Dr. Chavkin's research has focused on testing, prevention, perinatal transmission and policy in pregnancies with HIV; policy and treatment in pregnancies with drug abuse; abortion, including policy and medical education; surveillance, planning and assessment of services for maternal and child health.

Dr. Chavkin is Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association and is an Associate Contributing Editor for Women's Health for the American Journal of Public Health.

Paul Wise, MD, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Professor
pwise@bu.edu

Co-Principal Investigator, Paul Wise, is based in the Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, the academic link for child health at Boston Medical Center. At BMC, he is Director of Social and Health Policy Research and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. This department has a national reputation for leadership in research advocacy and clinical service concerned with issues related to poverty and underserved communities.