She moved to Seattle in 1989 and was hired by doctors Ann Collier and Lawrence Corey to work in the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM).
[2] In 2000, she received the Philip and Helen Fialkow Scholars Award given to junior faculty who made "outstanding achievements in medicine, research, teaching, clinical work, and academic citizenship.
In order to reach this conclusion, Wald and colleagues studied more than 500 couples who had previously found the Herpes simplex virus vaccine did not work.
[5] She also co-authored a study with an international team of researchers who found that taking a single daily dose of valacyclovir could reduce the transmission of genital herpes to uninfected partners.
[8] Wald was promoted to the ranks of Full Professor by 2007[9] and co-published a study titled Genital herpes with Rachna Gupta and Terri Warren in The Lancet.