Jennifer A. Wagman, PhD, MHS is an Assistant Professor in the Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences at UCLA. She is also a Deputy Director of the UC Global Health Institute (UC GHI) Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment Center of Expertise (WHGE-COE). Dr. Wagman earned her PhD in Reproductive, Perinatal, and Women’s Health and her Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has examined the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), reproductive health, and HIV infection in rural Uganda, and she has led intervention research to find effective, combination IPV/HIV prevention approaches. Dr. Wagman’s current work focuses on the epidemiology of alcohol and substance use and their associations with IPV and HIV transmission, as well as the science of implementing proven successful violence and HIV prevention approaches in low resource settings.