Melissa Tibbits, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Health Promotion
Assistant Director of Evaluation, Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska
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Melissa Tibbits, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion of the UNMC College of Public Health. She also is assistant director of evaluation at the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska.
Previously in the department, she served as vice chair and graduate program director.
She was a pre-doctoral fellow in the National Institute on Drug Abuse National Research Service at the Prevention Research Center of Pennsylvania State University.
- 2009, PhD, Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
- 2006, MS, Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
- 2004, BA, Anthropology and Psychology, University of Tulsa
- Abresch, C., Gilbert, C., Johnson, M., Karki, B,, Lyons, K., Meyer, K., Tibbits, M., Toure, D. (2022). Understanding the emotional labor of public health equity work: A mixed methods study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
- Gilbert, C.S., Xaverius, P.K., Tibbits, M.K., & Sappenfield, W.M. (2022). Refreshing the perinatal periods of risk: A new reference group and nationwide large-county-level analyses. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 26, 2396-2406.
- Tibbits, M., Lyons, K., & Abresch, C. (2021). The ‘A’ is the weakest link: What local health departments are doing to improve adolescent health. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 25, 368-376.
- Tibbits, M., Maloney, S., Ndashe, T.P., Grimm, B., Johansson, P., & Siahpush, M. (2018). Impact of the community-wide Adolescent Health Project on sexually transmitted infection testing in Omaha, Nebraska. American Journal of Public Health, 108, 782-784.
- Tibbits, M., Ndashe, T.P., King, K., & Siahpush, M. (2018). Promoting condom use through a youth-focused community-wide free condom distribution initiative. American Journal of Public Health, 108, 1506-1508.
- American Public Health Association
- Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
986365 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-4365