Chloe Bird is the Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Tufts Medical Center, the Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation. She studies women's health and determinants of sex and gender differences in health and health care, and identifies opportunities to address gaps in women's health. She is also a member of the Pardee RAND Graduate School faculty.

Bird served as a senior advisor to the director of the National Institute of Health's Office for Research on Women's Health and previously, as editor-in-chief of the journal "Women's Health Issues," where she is an associate editor. Her book "Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies," coauthored by Patricia P. Rieker, explores how policymakers and other stakeholders shape men's and women's opportunities to pursue a healthy life, emphasizing the need for research that informs stakeholders' decisions in order to improve women's health and reduce disparities.

Bird received the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology for her work on women's health. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Health Behavior. In 2024, she served as a member of the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine committee, evaluating the National Institutes of Health funding for research on women's health and making policy recommendations.

Bird earned her PhD and MA in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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