Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH

Biography

Gina M. Wingood, ScD, MPH, is a distinguished researcher and academic leader in the health promotion field, with decades of expertise designing and evaluating interventions that reduce health disparities in HIV. Dr. Wingood dedicated her life to developing gender- and culturally-appropriate HIV prevention interventions for African American women. She has received international acclaim for her research on social determinants of health, and was previously featured in Science as a highly-funded African American NIH grant recipient. Dr. Wingood's Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics in AIDS (SISTA) intervention, as well as five other HIV prevention interventions, have been endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and implemented widely across the country. She has been invited twice as a speaker to the White House to share her experience with evidence-based, multi-level interventions. Prior to joining the Mailman School, Dr. Wingood was a Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and the Agnes Moore Faculty in HIV/AIDS at Emory University. During her tenure at Emory University, Dr. Wingood published over 225 peer-reviewed articles across a wide array of public health and medical journals and served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on over 20 grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was also the Director of the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and Sexual Behavior at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Co-Director of Atlanta Women's Interagency HIV Study, Co-Director for the Prevention Sciences and Epidemiology Core at Emory Center for AIDS Research, as well as one of the founding Executive Directors of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network of the Centers for AIDS Research.