Senior Research Scientist
George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
Wendy Davis is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Prevention and Community Health (PCH) in George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health (GWSPH), Special Projects Coordinator for the DC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and Senior Adviser for the DC CFAR's Social and Behavioral Sciences Core. At GWSPH, 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 Prevention Core of the Johns Hopkins University’s CFAR 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.