Megan Willkens

Megan Willkens (she/her) joined the Guttmacher Institute as a Senior Research Assistant in 2026. Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health equity, community-based approaches to health care service delivery, and health systems strengthening. Prior to joining Guttmacher, she worked as a Research Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine's Center for Global Health, where she supported trials and observational studies on HIV and other chronic disease outcomes in Tanzania. Ms. Willkens received her BS in public health and public policy analysis from Syracuse University, and MS in epidemiology from Columbia University.