Melissa Gonzales
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
People Classification
Faculty
Affiliates
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
- Latin America
Research
Epidemiology, exposure science, environmental health, environmental exposures on individual and population health . US-Mexico border, Latin America.
Degrees
- PhD., University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Environmental Health, 1998
- M.S., University of Arizona School of Pharmacy, Toxicology-Industrial Hygeine, 1992
- B.A., University of Arizona, Interdisciplinary Studies- Chemistry, Biology, Spanish, 1986
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Professor and Chair, Dept. Of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2022-
- Professor Emerita, UNM School of Medicine, 2022-
- Professor, UNM School of Medicine, Division of EBPM, 2019-2022
- Associate Professor, UNM School of Medicine, Division of EBPM, 2008-2019
- Assistant Professor, UNM School of Medicine, MPM Program, Dept. Of Family and Community Medicine, 2002-2004
- Assistant Professor, UNM School of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine (EBPM), 2002-2008.
Distinctions
- NIH/NIMHD Centers for Excellence in Environmental Health Disparities Research Grant, 2020-2025
- Faculty Research Excellence Award for Population Science. UNM Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2021
Languages
- Spanish
Overseas Experience
- Spain
- Italy
Selected Publications
- 2025. Zare Jeddi, M, ISES Europe HBM Working Group and the HBM Global Network. Guidance on Minimum Information Requirements (MIR) for Designing and Reporting Human Biomonitoring (HBM) Studies. Env Intl. 2025. 202:10960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.20
- 2025. Gonzales M, Simmons J, Verney SP, Scarpetta M, Cacari Stone, L., Martin, R., Wallerstien N. Participatory Evaluation Design of a Transdisciplinary Behavioral Health Research Center. Eval Program Plann. 2025 Dec;113:102664.
- 2021. Gonzales M, Pichardo M, Day LW. Pre-Faculty Development for College and Post-Baccalaureate Students. Chapter in “White Paper: Pre-Faculty Development for Groups Under-represented in Academic Medicine”. BNGAP.
- 2018. Gonzales M, Erdei E, Hoover J, Nash J. A review of environmental epidemiology studies in southwestern and mountain west rural minority populations. Current Epidemiol Reports 2018, 5 (2)101–113; doi: 10.1007/s40471-018-0146-z.
- 2018. Gonzales M, King E, Bobelu J, Neha DM, Lesansee S, Madrid T, Shah V. Biological monitoring in environmental health research: Perspectives of a Southwestern Native American Community. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018, 15, 1129
- 2017. Gonzales M, Qeadan F, Mishra SI, Rajput A, Hoffman RM. Racial-ethnic disparities in late-stage colorectal cancer among Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites of New Mexico. Hisp Health Care Int. 2017 Dec;15(4):180-188. doi:10.1177/1540415317746317.
