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Biography
Dr. Justine Wu is a family physician with advanced clinical and research training in family planning through a Reproductive Health Fellowship and Master of Public Health Degree at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Wu’s research interests focus on supporting contraceptive decisions, particularly for people with chronic medical problems, breast cancer, or disabilities. She has expertise in the application of mixed methods to contraceptive research. She is a program faculty member of the University of Michigan Mixed Methods Program and a former scholar of the NIH Mixed Methods Research Training Program.
Dr. Wu is committed to confronting structural racism in health research by leveraging anti-racist principles throughout the research process. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Program on Anti-racism in Research and Scholarship in the Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Wu is the PI of an NIH grant to develop a contraceptive decision support tool for patients with medical conditions.
Credentials
Medical School
M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 2000
Residency
University of Michigan, Family Medicine, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2003
Fellowship
Reproductive Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2006
Advanced Degrees
M.P.H., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2000
Grants
Lead Investigator
K23 Research Career Development Award
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institutes of Health
$842,400
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In the News
Family Medicine’s Melissa DeJonckheere and Justine Wu appointed co-directors of the Michigan Mixed Methods Program
Professor Michael D. Fetters, co-founder of the program, will stay on as a core member, while Assistant Professor Tim Guetterman will continue as associate director.
Family Medicine research team awarded OVPR Anti-Racism Grant to investigate racial inequities in newborn drug screening
Funding will support their project, “Promoting racial equity in newborn drug testing: A justice-informed, participatory mixed methods study,” also known as the Equity in Newborn Screening Study (ENDS study)
