MD, MPH
John Santelli is a Professor of Population and Family Health and Pediatrics at Columbia University; he served as chair of Population and Family Health from 2004 to 2016. Dr Santelli has conducted policy-related research on HIV/STD risk behaviours, trends in teen fertility, programs to prevent STD/HIV/unintended pregnancy, school-based health centers, adolescent clinical preventive services, and research ethics, particularly as it relates to adolescents. Dr Santelli is a senior consultant for the Guttmacher Institute, a member of the Journal of Adolescent Health’s editorial board, a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, and a past President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM). He is a national leader in ensuring that adolescents have access to medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education and are appropriately included in health research.