Lynne S. Wilcox, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Division of Reproductive Health, Center for Disease
Control

Dr. Wilcox is Director of the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DRH addresses surveillance, field investigations, program evaluations, and epidemiologic studies of maternal and infant health, family planning, and reproductive health disorders, providing national and international consultations. Dr. Wilcox's previous positions at CDC include Deputy Chief of the Program Services and Development Branch, DRH; Assistant for Family and Infant Health to the Deputy Director for Public Health Practice, NCCDPHP; and Section Chief, Fertility Epidemiology Section, DRH.

Dr. Wilcox received her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and her public health degree from John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, John Hopkins University. She is board certified in family medicine and preventive medicine and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in perinatal epidemiology at John Hopkins University and the Epidemic Intelligence Service training program at CDC. She is a graduated Scholar of the Public Health Leadership Institute, sponsored by CDC and the University of California at Berkeley, and is a board member of the Society for Advancement of Women's Health Research. Dr. Wilcox served as the U.S. co-chair of the Working Group on Adult Women, for Secretary Shalala's 1998 Binational Israel-U.S.A. Conference on Promoting Women's Health Across Generations, held in Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Wilcox has authored a number of publications on women's health, focusing on contraceptive and gynecologic procedures. In addition, she was senior editor for From Data to Action: CDC's Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants, and Children, a comprehensive monograph on CDC surveillance, and for Economics of Reproductive and Infant Health: and Annotated Bibliography from 1980 to 1993. She serves as CDC liaison to several national organizations on women's and children's health, including the Women's Health Measurement Advisory Committee for the National Committee on Quality Assurance, the Executive Board of the American Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Advisory Committee for a Women's Health Report Card.