Wendee Wechsberg

Wendee Wechsberg, PhD leads the RTI Global Gender Center, which brings together experts across numerous disciplines to improve knowledge, policies, and programs worldwide to reduce gender inequities and disparities. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience and has devoted her career to applied research to develop and test the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions among different populations of substance abusers, particularly heroin and other opioid users. Dr. Wechsberg has published in the areas of gender and ethnicity, outreach, HIV risk, and women substance abusers.