Biography
Melissa George is a public health professional with extensive training in qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation methods. She has years of experience managing community-based projects and initiatives.
George earned her Bachelor’s of Arts at Oberlin College in 2012, double majoring in Africana studies and comparative American studies with a minor in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies. She earned a master’s degree in public health at Rutgers University, focusing on health education and behavior sciences and urban health administration, with an emphasis on community-based program development and implementation.
George has worked extensively in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods and has served as an evaluator on numerous projects related to racial and gender equity. She is experienced with various social determinants of health, particularly those related to poverty, housing insecurity, incarceration, HIV/AIDS, and women’s sexual and reproductive health. She is committed to conducting equitable research that benefits historically marginalized communities, ensuring the validity of this process in all her work.
Since completing her MPH, George has been living in Atlanta, working on CDC-funded public health programming with Morehouse School of Medicine’s Prevention Research Center and Georgia’s State Department of Public Health. Her work has primarily focused on public health initiatives aimed at violence prevention in Metro-Atlanta and the federally funded Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) program. Most recently, she has been a consultant providing research, evaluation, grant writing, and capacity-building services for nonprofits and philanthropies across the United States
