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Melissa Creary
Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Interdisciplinary Studies (Emory University)
About
Melissa Creary is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in interdisciplinary studies at the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA) at Emory University. She also received a BS in biology and master's in public health at Emory. Melissa served as a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Division of Blood Disorders for nine years where she helped create the first national program for the agency and data collection system for sickle cell disease (SCD).
Current Work
Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of public health, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology. She studies the social, cultural, ethical, political and historic tensions of SCD in both the United States and Brazil. In her most recent project, she analyzes how frameworks of biology, social determinants, and policy respond to Brazilian cultural and historical ideas about race, health, identity, and legitimacy. She has been published in Genetics in Medicine, the Huffington Post, and the Journal of Bioethics and was recognized by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America with the National Champion Advocacy award.
Research Area Keyword(s)
biopolitics, Brazil, health policy, race, sickle cell disease