Columbia University
Blair Johnson Wylie, M.D., M.P.H., is the Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women’s Environmental Health at Columbia University and the Virgil G. Damon Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She also serves as the obstetric consultant to the New England Region’s Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit Network (PEHSU).
Dr. Wylie’s research has focused on global maternal/child health with a particular interest in environmental exposures during pregnancy in international settings such as smoke from cooking fires or pesticides from subsistence farming or malaria control. She has ongoing projects in Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, India and Pakistan and serves as the co-PI to the Global Network's Aga Khan University/Columbia University site. She previously chaired the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Global Heath Committee, and now chairs the Foundation for SMFM’s Queenan Fellowships for Global Health. She recently completed a three-year term on the Board for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.