Mellissa Withers, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Director, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Global Health Program
Location: SSB 318G
Telephone: 323 865-0495
Email: mwithers@usc.edu
Mellissa Withers is an associate professor of clinical preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She also directs the Online MPH Program, as well as the Global Health Program of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a non-profit network of 60+ leading research universities in the region.
Her research focuses on global reproductive health and gender-based violence, including human trafficking, HIV/AIDS prevention and family planning. Other research interests include community participatory research, border health and mental health. Dr Withers is the editor of two books: Global Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse, and Global Health Leadership: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific. She has also published more than 70 scientific articles and serves on the editorial boards of six international global health journals. She has spent several years living and working in countries in Asia and Latin America.
Dr. Withers teaches numerous courses relating to global health, including global health ethics, leadership, and research methods. Prior to coming to USC in 2013, she taught at UCLA; California State University, Los Angeles; Occidental College; and UC San Francisco.
Dr. Withers holds a doctorate in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She also earned her Master of Health Sciences degree in the health systems management track from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in global development.
Recent:
- Sexual Health and Human Rights at the Intersections: Global Norms and Local Realities (4/27/2023)
- Mpox: Learnings from Effective Science and Human Rights-Based Responses (1/19/2023)
- IIGH Addresses the Dobbs Decision (12/15/2022)
- The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project Launch (12/8/2022)
- Our Latest Newsletter (12/2/2022)
- Addressing the Long-Term Social and Economic Impacts of Dobbs: A View from Inside USC (11/16/2022)
- Addressing Healthy Aging as a Human Rights Issue (10/27/2022)
- Engaging with Law and Politics in a post-Roe World (10/19/2022)
- Embedding Equity in Global Health Financing and Diplomacy (10/12/2022)
- Abortion Services and Access in a post-Roe World (10/4/2022)
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