Melissa Wilson, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences
Health Equity Interests
Pregnancy is an event that everyone, male or female, has experienced, having once been a fetus. What happens in utero doesn't stay in utero.
Biography
Melissa L. Wilson, MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh, her MPH degree in Epidemiology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2005.
After completing her postdoctoral research at USC, she joined the faculty of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department. In 2012, then moved to the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences to pursue other research and teaching opportunities. Dr. Wilson's research interests focus on pregnancy and include the molecular epidemiology of preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome, the genetics of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, subsequent effects of in utero exposure to nausea and vomiting of pregnancy on the offspring, long term effects of preeclampsia on offspring, and the effects of air pollution on obstetric outcomes.
Research Interests
- Social Determinants of Health
- Health Care Outcomes
- Vulnerable Populations
- Residential Characteristics
- Morbidity
- Morbidity and mortality
- Risk Factors
- Tobacco Control
- Preventive Medicine
- Maternal Health
- Life Cycle
- Interventions
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Disease Prevention
- Primary Prevention
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Genetics
- Epidemiological Factors
- Translational Research
- Exposures
- Air Pollution
- Health Endpoints
- pregnancy
- Multilevel Modeling
- Research Design and Methods
- Public Health Data Sciences
Publications
Chronic Kidney Disease Increases Cost of Care and Readmission Risk After Shoulder Arthroplasty.
J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2023 Sep 28;. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2023.08.018. Epub 2023 Sep 28. PubMed PMID: 37777047;
Causes of Death Among Medical ICU Patients With Pneumonia Due to COVID-19 in a Safety-Net Hospital.
Crit Care Explor. 2023 Jul;5(7):e0947. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000947. Epub 2023 Jul 14. PubMed PMID: 37465700; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10351933.
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and occurrence of ADHD, ASD, and epilepsy in the child: A meta-analysis.
Pregnancy Hypertens. 2023 Jun 22;33:22-29. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2023.06.002. Epub 2023 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 37356382;
Lymphocyte Subset Ratio Cannot Diagnose Immune Failure of a TKA.
J Arthroplasty. 2022 Mar 8;. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2022.03.010. Epub 2022 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 35276278;
Modifiable risk factors increase length of stay and 90-day cost of care after shoulder arthroplasty.
J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2022 Jan;31(1):2-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2021.08.010. Epub 2021 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 34543743;
Courses Taught
- Principles of Epidemiology
- Principles of Biostatistics
- Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology
- Clinical Translational Research (CTR)
- Clinical Translational Reseach I
- Maternal and Child Health
- Theoretical Principles of Health Behavior
- Health Behavior Research Methods
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- Clinical Translational Research 2
Education
- B.S. in Biology
at University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
04/1991 - M.P.H. in Epidemiology
at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
06/1994 - Ph.D in Epidemiology
at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
05/2005 - Post-doc in Molecular Epidemiology & Maternal Fetal Medicine
at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
05/2006