Melissa Watt, PhD

Duke University
Duke Global Health Institute
Box 90519
Durham, NC
USA 27708
Email: melissa.watt@duke.edu

Biographical Sketch: Melissa Watt is an Assistant Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. She has a PhD in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research uses mixed methods and focuses on the influence of mental health and well-being on health outcomes. Her work has included a focus on obstetric fistula patients in Tanzania, HIV and substance us in South Africa, and issues of aging in Sri Lanka.

Papers:
3295.0 Attitudes toward the impact of HIV treatment on transmission risk among newly HIV-diagnosed men who have sex with men in New York City 4367.0 Religious coping among women with obstetric fistula in Tanzania 5008.0 Relationship between depression and HIV status disclosure following recent HIV diagnosis among MSM