Dr. Wendy Chavkin has been active on a host of reproductive health issues. She directed the Bureau of Maternity Services and Family Planning at the New York City Department of Health from 1984 to 1988. She then held a Rockefeller Fellowship to study the public health, medical, ethical, and social ramifications of maternal substance abuse. Since 1989, she has been developing the Perinatal Addiction Research and Policy Unit with the Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center. She is also a Professor of Clinical Public Health at Columbia University's School of Public Health.Dr. Chavkin assumed the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association in 1994. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health. She has written extensively about women's reproductive health issues, and women and drugs, including her 1994 book Double Exposure: Women's Health Hazards at the Job and Home.Dr. Chavkin's clinical training is in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her MPH degree is in Reproductive Epidemiology, and she is Board Certified in Public Health and Preventative Medicine.

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