Wendee M. Wechsberg
Wendee M. Wechsberg (born May 21,1954) is an American
biobehavioral social science researcher. She has utilized
mixed methods research to develop and evaluate
HIV prevention interventions for diverse populations, focusing on underserved women, adolescent girls, and couples who use substances since 1994. She has focused her career in the scientific field of addressing
gender inequalities in relation to the syndemic factors of substance use, HIV, and
gender violence. She is known for the creation of the evidence-based Women’s CoOp HIV prevention intervention for women who used crack-cocaine and subsequent age-, gender- and
culturally-sensitive global adaptations across more than three decades of
HIV research.
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