Dr. Winikoff is the President of Gynuity Health Projects in New York City.  

Before beginning work on Gynuity, she was employed for 25 years at the Population Council where she was Director for Reproductive Health and a Senior Medical Associate. She developed and managed the Council’s Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health, including work on Safe Motherhood, prevention of STD's/AIDS, prevention of unsafe abortion, provision of safe abortion care, and improving postpartum care for mothers and babies. 

Prior to joining the Council in 1978, she was Assistant Director for Health Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has focused on issues of reproductive choice, contraception, abortion, and women’s health. 

Dr. Winikoff graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, earned her MD degree from New York University and her MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has served on numerous boards of directors including the Reproductive Health Technologies Project (founding member), Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH, founding member), the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), the National Abortion Federation, and The MediTeam Trust in South Africa. 

Dr. Winikoff is a Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University in New York.