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Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Dr. Wendy Chavkin currently serves as the director of the Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship and as the chair to the Board of Directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health. From 1994 to 2002 she was editor-in-chief of The Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, and from 1984 to 1988, she served as the director of The Bureau of Maternity Services and Family Planning in New York City’s Department of Health. She has written extensively about women’s reproductive health issues for over two decades, including the consequences of welfare reform for the health of women and children, occupational health, reproductive health in medical education, HIV, and illegal drug use in pregnancy. Dr. Chavkin is the 2004-2005 Fulbright New Century Scholar for her research on Fertility Decline and the Empowerment of Women.
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