Megan Huchko

Hollier Family Associate Professor of Global Health
Megan Huchko
Megan Huchko

Overview

Megan Huchko, MD, MPH, holds a dual appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Duke Global Health Institute.  Dr. Huchko was an undergraduate at Duke before moving to New York City to complete medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.  She completed her fellowship in Reproductive Infectious Disease the University of California, San Francisco, and was a faculty member there. 

Dr. Huchko practices as an ob/gyn generalist and specializes in cervical cancer prevention through her clinical work and global women’s health research.  Her research focuses on optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer among vulnerable women in settings where health disparities occur. She has been working with the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) program in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya since 2006.  

She designed and implemented a cervical cancer screening and prevention (CCSP) program for HIV-infected women enrolled in care at FACES.  The CCSP program has provided a clinical resource, as well as a cohort to evaluate the epidemiology of cervical cancer among HIV-infected women, the feasibility of integrating cervical cancer prevention programs into HIV and general outpatient clinics, the safety of various diagnostic and treatment modalities, the efficacy of low-cost/low-resource screening modalities in HIV-infected women and provider and patient-level barriers and facilitators to uptake of cervical cancer prevention activities.  

Currently, she is carrying out several large studies in central Uganda and western Kenya to evaluate the optimal implementation strategy for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in rural settings.  At Duke, she leads the Center of Excellence in Global Women’s Health through the Global Health Institute and serves as Director for the Ob/Gyn Clinical Research Unit (CRU).

Positions

Hollier Family Associate Professor of Global Health in the School of Medicine

2021 School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine

2022 School of Medicine

Associate Research Professor of Global Health in the Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

2016 Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine

2017 School of Medicine

Education

B.A. 1997

1997 Duke University

M.D. 2002

2002 Yeshiva University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

M.P.H. 2007

2007 University of California - Berkeley

Publications, Grants & Awards

Offices & Contact

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