On May 13, 2010, Professor Michelle Williams will deliver the Spring 2010 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Biomedical, Social, and Environmental Determinants of Reproductive Health: A Changing Landscape. The lecture will be presented at 3:30 pm in Room T-747 in the Health Sciences Building.

Dr. Williams is Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the UW School of Public Health, and her major research interests and activities are women's reproductive health and child health. Current activities include research and teaching collaborations with epidemiologists in Peru, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and the Republic of Georgia.

In 1993, Dr. Williams developed UW-MIRT, the Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program, which trains students from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds for research and leadership careers in public health. The program gives undergraduate students life-enriching and academically rigorous experiences while addressing real global public health problems in developing countries. In 2007, MIRT was awarded the Brotman Award for outstanding collaboration to improve undergraduate education.

Dr. Williams is also Co-Director of the Center for Perinatal Studies at Swedish Medical Center and Affiliate Investigator at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.