Allen Wilcox

Allen James Wilcox is an American epidemiologist who heads the reproductive epidemiology group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

He later received both his MPH and PhD from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (formerly known as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health) in 1976 and 1979, respectively.

[1] Wilcox began working at the NIEHS in 1979, where he helped establish their epidemiology branch and served as its chief from 1991 to 2001.

[2] In 1988, he published a study that found that 31% of pregnancies ended in miscarriages,[3] and in 1994, he published a study that found a strong link between the environment in which people live and work and the risk of birth defects in their children.

[4] In 1995, he published a study that found that women had the best chance of conceiving a child if they had sex on the day of ovulation, with the odds of conception falling sharply thereafter.