Wendy Davis

Senior Research Scientist

School: Milken Institute School of Public Health

Department: Prevention and Community Health

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Email: Wendy Davis

Wendy Davis is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Prevention and Community Health (PCH) in the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Special Projects Coordinator for the DC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). In PCH, Wendy coordinates a number of the department’s strategic initiatives and is also a co-investigator on multiple research projects, including related to COVID vaccine hesitancy and HIV prevention uptake, access and choice.

Wendy received her Master’s in Education from Harvard University. She provided prevention and remediation services in a public elementary school for several years and then held a series of positions coordinating the development of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, the DSM-IV, and related publications, including the DSM-IV for primary care clinicians. She later worked in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and was on faculty there from 2010 to 2017 and was Senior Manager of the Johns Hopkins University’s CFAR Prevention Core from 2011 to 2017. Before coming to Milken in 2020, Wendy was Research Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at American University (AU) and Managing Director of AU’s Center on Health Risk and Society.

Publications

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Hogan, J.W., Galai, N., Davis, W.W. Modeling the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on HIV. AIDS Behav. 2021 Sep 3:1–10. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03399-2. PMID: 34478016

Rodriguez-Diaz, C.E., Davis, W., Ellis, M.V., Cameron, M.S,. Donastorg, Y., Bowleg, L., Greenberg, A., Kerrigan, D. Disrupting the systems: Opportunities to enhance methodological approaches to address socio-structural determinants of HIV and end the epidemic through effective community engagement. AIDS Behav. 2021 Nov;25 (Suppl 2):225-231. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03475-7. Epub 2021 Oct 7. PMID: 34618266

Greenberg, A.E., Celentano, D.D., Metzger, D.S., Magnus, M., Blank, M.B., Davis, W., Brooks, D., Dominique, T., Page, K.R., Limaye, R.J., Collman, R.G., Chaisson, R.E., Zea, Maria Cecilia, Beyrer, C. The Mid-Atlantic Centers for AIDS Research Consortium: Promoting HIV science through regional collaboration. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 2021 Sep 24 https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2021.0017

Davis, W., Mantsios, A., Karver, T., Murray, M., Punekar, Y., Ward, D., Bredeek, U.F., Moreno, S., Merino, D., Knobel, H., Campis, A., Kerrigan, D. “It made me more confident that I have it under control”: Patient and provider perspectives on moving to a two-drug ART regimen in the United States and Spain. PLoS One, 2020. 15(5): e0232473.

Kerrigan, D., Donastorg, Y., Barrington, C., Perez, M., Gomez, H., Mbwambo, J., Likindikoki, S., Mantsios, A., Beckham, S.W., Leddy, A., Karver, T.S., Galai, N., Davis, W.W. Assessing and Addressing Social Determinants of HIV among Female Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic and Tanzania through Community Empowerment-Based Responses. Current HIV Reports. Curr HIV/AIDS 2019 Rep 17, 88–96.