Therese McGinn
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
E-mail: tjm22@columbia.edu

Therese McGinn, DrPH, is Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, and serves as the Deputy Director of the Department's Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program. She received her DrPH from Columbia University; MPH from University of Michigan; and studied as an undergraduate at Cornell University.

Her 20 years of public health work have focused on using sound data collection and analysis to improve the scope and quality of reproductive health services that are necessary for women and men around the world to make choices about their sexual and reproductive lives. The reproductive health of conflict-affected populations around the world has been a component of her work since the mid-1990s. In addition to her applied research activities abroad, she teaches and advises Master's level students in Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and contributes to the professional literature.