Chloe Bird
Director, Center for Health Equity Research, Tufts Medical Center; Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Senior Sociologist, RAND
Chloe E. Bird is director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Tufts Medical Center, Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and senior sociologist at RAND. She is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, associate editor of Women’s Health Issues, a member of the NIH Advisory Committee for Research on Women's Health, and a former senior advisor to the NIH Office for Research on Women's Health. Bird is co-principal investigator of a PCORI Engagement Award on maternal Birth-centered Outcomes Research (B-CORE) in MediCal and co-principal investigator of a study of identity development among sociologists as STEM social and behavioral scientists. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Health Behavior.
Previously
For decades, new therapies were routinely tested only in men, and assumed to work the same way in women. The landmark NIH Revitalization Act, with its requirement that women b...