Green named next Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD Chair in Women’s Health and Health Equity Research

Green has been a member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2019 with her primary home in the Department of Population Health. Beginning July 1, 2024, she is moving her administrative home along with more time and effort to our department to enhance collaborations with clinical faculty. Green shared that she “is genuinely excited to think about how being more embedded in a clinical department can accelerate our mutual goals to achieve birth equity.”
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.
Green is a nationally recognized economist, population health scientist, and science communicator whose mission is to reduce and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in in reproductive health. 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.
As a science communicator and educator, Green is dedicated to making complex issues accessible to policymakers, the lay public, and the next generation of physicians and population health scientists. She has used her expertise to promote evidence-based policy via legislative testimony and has provided interviews for numerous local and national media outlets on reproductive equity and the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Green also developed “Race in American Obstetrics and Gynecology”, one of the first medical education courses in the United States to address the role of race in the development of American obstetrics and gynecology.
Green actively serves in local and state community organizations to address reproductive health disparities. She is a member of the Wisconsin State Maternal Mortality Review Team and proudly serves as inaugural Co-Chair of the Black Maternal & Child Health Alliance of Dane County—a coalition committed to ensuring that Black birthing people and babies are free to reach their highest potential.
Please help us congratulate Dr. Green on this well-deserved appointment! We are excited to see what such an already-accomplished, impressive researcher can do with the support from this endowed chair and the opportunity for more increased collaboration with our clinical faculty.