Melissa Graboyes
Professor
Melissa Graboyes is the PI on the NSF grant, “The Ethics of Sharing Results with Research Participants: Establishing Best Practices for Development Economics” and is a broadly trained expert in African history, medical history, global health, and ethics with over two decades of experience working on the African continent. She is currently Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Oregon, and the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 which is being used by global health and development workers, and co-editor of the award-winning Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent. She is an award-winning instructor, the past Director of the University of Oregon’s African Studies Program, and a founding member of the UO’s Global Health Program. Graboyes is a first-generation college graduate and has a strong commitment to mentoring students from under-represented groups. As part of her current NSF CAREER award, she successfully runs a Global Health Research Group for 20 talented female-identifying STEM majors seeking broader interdisciplinary training. She has worked as a public health practitioner in the United States and in East Africa. She earned her Ph.D. in African history and her Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Boston University.
