Dr. Tiffany Green, one of the country’s leading health economists working in the area of reproductive health equity and maternal mortality disparities, has been named the new Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD, Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research. Green is the associate professor in the UW Department of Ob-Gyn Division of Reproductive and Population Health and the UW SMPH Department of Population Health Sciences.
The Gloria E. Sarto MD, PhD Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research honors an internationally recognized academic leader at the forefront of women’s health research. The income from this endowment supports research and education programs, and services that further these scholarly activities.
Dr. Gloria Sarto, emerita professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, passed away on Saturday, June 8.
Green is a nationally recognized economist, population health scientist, and science communicator whose mission is to reduce and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in reproductive health, according to a news release from UW-Madison, and since joining the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2019, she has focused much of her research on understanding how and why Black people with the capacity for pregnancy experience the worst reproductive health access and outcomes of any racial/ethnic group — and what innovative solutions might ameliorate these persistent inequities.
Green’s appointment to this professorship began on July 1.
