Joan Chow, DrPH, MPH

Chief, Epidemiology Unit, Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch, California Department of Public Health

Email: joan.chow@cdph.ca.gov

Biosketch:

Joan M. Chow received her BA from Yale University, and her MPH, DrPH from UCLA in the School of Public Health Divisions of Population, Family, and International Health, and Epidemiology.  Her dissertation was on "The Association between Chlamydia trachomatis and Ectopic Pregnancy: A Matched Case-Control Study.  She was awarded an American Social Health Association postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Julius Schachter, UCSF Chlamydia Research Laboratory, followed by appointment to the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine as Assistant Research Epidemiologist.  She is currently appointed to the UCSF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as a Specialist, and is based in the California Department of Public Health, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Control Branch as Chief of the Epidemiology Unit, Surveillance and Epidemiology Section.

Areas of Interest:

• Epidemiology of chlamydia and related adverse reproductive outcomes (repeat infection, pelvic inflammatory disease, tubal-factor infertility, and ectopic pregnancy)
• Evaluation of chlamydia diagnostic test performance
• Monitoring and evaluation of chlamydia screening performance in the private sector and managed care
• Development of chlamydia and gonorrhea screening guidelines

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009