NYU Women’s Health Study faculty and staff manage all aspects of the study. Under the aegis of the Division of Epidemiology in NYU Langone’s Department of Population Health, we correspond with and collect data from participants, analyze data and biospecimens, and publish research results.

Faculty

Yu Chen, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Population Health

Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, MD, MS
Co-Investigator
Professor, Department of Population Health

Alan A. Arslan, MD
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Population Health

Karen L. Koenig, PhD
Co-Investigator
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Mengling Liu, PhD
Co-Investigator
Professor, Department of Population Health

Luis A. Chiriboga, PhD
Immunohistochemistry Core Director
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Role: directs the study’s immunohistochemistry analyses of tumor tissue samples

Farbod Darvishian, MD
Co-Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Role: study pathologist

Staff

Yelena Afanasyeva, MS, Senior Data Manager

Tess Clendenen, PhD, Research Scientist

Fen Wu, PhD, Senior Research Scientist

Sukhleen Bedi, MS, Senior Research Coordinator

Yuning Liu, MPH, PhD student

Xiaolan Zhao, MPH, Project Assistant

Former Faculty and Staff

Bernard Pasternack, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine
Contribution: first Principal Investigator from 1984 to 1995

Paolo G. Toniolo, MD
Research Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Contribution: Principal Investigator from 1995 to 2002

Roy Shore, PhD, DrPH
Adjunct Professor, Department of Population Health
Contribution: Principal Investigator from 2002 to 2006

Over the years, several graduate students have based their doctoral dissertation research on the NYU Women’s Health Study: Jennifer Brooks, PhD; Wenzhen Ge, PhD; Yian Gu, MD, PhD; Kathryn Hertzmark, PhD; Hiroko Watanabe Meserve, PhD; Tess Clendenen, PhD; Oktawia Wojcik, PhD; and Sandra India-Aldana, PhD. Stephanie Scarmo, PhD, completed their postdoctoral fellowship with the NYU Women’s Health Study.