John S. Santelli

Sen. John Santelli, MD, MPH is a Professor of Population and Family Health and Pediatrics at Columbia. He joined Columbia University in 2004 after 18 years in public health research in Baltimore and at the U.S. CDC. Santelli trained in Adolescent Medicine and Public Health in Baltimore. He has conducted policy-related research on adolescent health including HIV/STD risk behaviors, teen fertility, socioeconomic determinants, prevention programs, and research ethics. He has been a national leader in ensuring that adolescents have access to medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education, and are appropriately and ethically included in health research. Since 2009, Santelli has been the principal investigator on five NIH-funded projects at the Rakai Health Sciences Program on HIV risk among youth including empirical research bioethics and social determinants of health. He is a past President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and was a member of the planning committee for the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.