🌴 Melissa is a social epidemiologist and principal of People’s Health Solutions (PHS), a consulting agency whose mission is building healthy communities together. PHS is based in Long Beach, California.
📊 PHS partners to help identify community health drivers; design people-centered health solutions; measure change through participatory research and evaluation; and educate and inspire through health communication.
✊🏼 Melissa's research focuses on civic engagement in public health programs and health care integration. She places a dual emphasis on social and behavioral science and democratic processes. This ensures solutions are based in scientific evidence and powered by local knowledge and leadership.
🏳️🌈 PHS is anti-racist and LGBTQ+ owned.
There is power in working alongside other people moving in the same direction. Let's lift each other up!