Prof. Samantha Winter is an Assistant Professor at the Columbia School of Social Work. Before joining Columbia, she was the Dorothy Byrne Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Dr. Winter's research focuses on inequities in women's health and access to health-related services; water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and health in sub-Saharan Africa; health-related behavior; access to and distribution of health-related services in informal settlements in East Africa; and the role of social disorganization in access to health-related services.