Roberta Ness, M.D., M.P.H., is professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and director of the school's Epidemiology of Women's Health Program, the first university program of its kind in the U.S. There she oversees a comprehensive effort to improve women's health through graduate student education and research.
Her specialties are reproductive and women's health, and she's been principal investigator in studies dealing with douching, vaginal microbiology and PID, preeclampsia, effectiveness of outpatient treatment for PID, oral contraceptives and ovarian cancer, and cocaine use and pregnancy outcomes in inner-city women.
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