Susan F. Wood

Susan F. Wood is an American public health professional. She is director of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Career
Woods graduated from Rhodes College in 1980. She earned her PhD in biology from Boston University in 1989, through the university's Marine Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory. She was a researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

From 1995 to 2000, she was science advisor to the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues.

From 2000 to 2005, she was Assistant Commissioner for Women's Health of the Food and Drug Administration. She resigned over delays in approval of the morning-after pill.

Wood is a professor at George Washington University. She advises women to have advocates go to the doctor, to address women's health bias.