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Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H.

Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H.Director, VCU Center for Human Needs

Phone: (804) 628-2462
E-mail: swoolf@vcu.edu

Areas of interest

  • Health services research
  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Health promotion and disease prevention
  • Social justice and health disparities

Professional affiliations

  • Consults with government agencies and professional organizations on health policy, critical appraisal of evidence and matters related to preventive medicine

Education

  • M.D. – Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
  • Residency, family medicine – Fairfax Family Medicine Residency, Fairfax, Va.
  • Residency, preventive medicine and public health – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
  • M.P.H. – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Board certification

  • Family medicine
  • Preventive medicine and public health

Previous experience

  • Author of more than 120 articles and two books
  • Founded a practice-based research network in 1996
  • Established a center to study the influence of social determinants of health
  • Scientific adviser and member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Consulted in Europe as a visiting scholar
  • Past North American editor of the British Medical Journal
  • Elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 2001