Margo Woods is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine. She has been at Tufts for over 25 years where she has conducted research on the role of nutrition in breast cancer and HIV/AIDS. She has obtained research grants from NIH, the Department of Defense, private foundations and Mass. Department of Health. She has been course director for the required Nutrition and Medicine course for over 15 years and has had two NIH Nutrition Education Grants to promote nutrition education of physicians. She obtained her D. Sc. Degree from Harvard School of Public Health (1976) and is on the Awards Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Association.

Dr. Woods is a board member of the Ethical Society of Boston and Chairman of the Committee on Ethical Action which pursues humanitarian projects and issues of societal equity. The committee has recently published a consumer guide on “Wise Choices: Using your Purchasing Power to Support Your Health and the Health of the Environment”. In the spring of 2008 She will be facilitating courses on “Voluntary Simplicity” and “Compassionate Communication” sponsored by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and the Ethical Society of Boston.