The Women and Health Initiative has a faculty steering committee review the work of the Initiative and provide feedback on its planned activities and future directions.
Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH – Chair
Professor of Health Systems
Department of Global Health and Population
Lisa Berkman, PhD
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology
Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Jessica Cohen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Global Health
Department of Global Health and Population
Wafaie Fawzi, DrPH
Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences
Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health,
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population
Department of Global Health and Population
Department of Nutrition
Department of Epidemiology
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH
K.T. Li Professor of International Health
Department of Health Policy and Management
Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
Nancy Krieger, PhD
Professor of Social Epidemiology
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender and Health
Chair, Spirit of 1848 Caucus, American Public Health Association
Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Department of Global Health and Population
Marie McCormick, MD, ScD
Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate Director of the Infant Follow-up Program, Children’s Hospital
Senior Associate for Academic Affairs, Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH
Director, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Nancy Turnbull
Senior Lecturer on Health Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management
Associate Dean for Educational Programs
