Marilyn Winkleby, Public Health Scientist and Advocate

Marilyn Winkleby, M.P.H., Ph.D., is an epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine, Stanford University. Since receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, her teaching and research have focused on social inequalities in health, cardiovascular disease, and community-based interventions. Her current research involves the interrelationship of ethnicity and social class on chronic disease risk factors, neighborhood influences on health, and community-based intervention programs that address the health of low-income and ethnic minority children and adults. Dr. Winkleby has published extensively in medical and public health journals. Her epidemiologic research is congruent with a number of public service activities and youth mentoring programs. This includes the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program, a summer residential program at Stanford that she founded in 1988 with two students that has offered academic enrichment in the biomedical sciences and college and career guidance to over 450 low-income high school students. She also serves as the faculty director of the Office of Community Health in the School of Medicine. For more information on Marilyn Winkleby’s research and publications, please visit her website at the School of Medicine (click here).