Role: Agnes Moore Faculty in HIV/AIDS Research; Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education; Director of Social and Behavioral Science Core, Emory Center for AIDS Research

  Contact: gwingoo@emory.edu

 Scholarship:
HIV prevention for African-American women and teens | Health Disparities | Translational Research | Structural Interventions

Gina M. Wingood, ScD, MPH is the Agnes Moore Faculty in HIV/AIDS Research; a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education; and the Director of Social and Behavioral Science Core, Emory Center for AIDS Research.  Dr. Wingood received her doctoral degree from the Harvard University School of Public Health.  

For the past two decades, Dr. Wingood has dedicated her life to developing gender and culturally appropriate HIV prevention interventions for African-American women.  Dr. Wingood has developed evidence-based HIV prevention programs for adolescents, young women, middle aged and older African-American women at risk and living with HIV.  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) refers to the wide-spread adoption of her SISTA HIV intervention as a social movement.

Dr. Wingood has published more than 150 articles on African-American women’s risk of HIV.  She has received numerous awards nationally.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently disseminating a suite of three evidence-based HIV prevention programs for women (the SiSTA study), African-American female adolescents (the SiHLE study) and HIV positive African-American women (the WiLLOW study) developed by Dr. Wingood.  CDC has referred to this suite of programs as the “Continuum of HIV prevention interventions for women.”