Faculty, Staff & Students
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Director, Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Associate Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Melissa L. Walls Ph.D. (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe) is a social scientist committed to collaborative research and has over a decade of experience working with tribal communities in the United States and Canada. Her involvement in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects to date includes mental health epidemiology; culturally-relevant, family-based substance use prevention and mental health promotion programming and evaluation; and examining the impact of stress and mental health on diabetes. Dr. Walls’s collaborative work has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
