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Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Areas of Interest

Maternal and Child Health, Neonatal Health, Malaria in Pregnancy, Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, Malnutrition

About

Dr. Bauserman is a neonatologist whose research centers on improving women’s and children’s health in low-income countries. Her research focuses on reducing newborn mortality, improving infant malnutrition, and understanding the perinatal effects of malaria in early pregnancy. She focuses much of her work in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where she leads the UNC-Kinshasa School of Public Health research partnership within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Global Network for Women and Children’s Health Research. The Global Network is a multi-center, multi-national research group that includes 8 U.S. research sites partnered with 8 international research sites including the DRC, Kenya, Zambia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Guatemala. Dr. Bauserman has worked on studies evaluating pre-conceptional and gestational etiologies of stunting of linear growth at birth. She has led a multi-national effort to evaluate the effects of malaria in early pregnancy. Dr. Bauserman has also piloted novel techniques to determine the role of parasitic infections and environmental enteropathy in growth stunting in infants in the DRC. She is the lead investigator for a multi-country trial evaluating novel neuroprotective agents for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in low and low-middle-income countries. Her long-term research objectives are to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality in low-income countries by finding novel ways to treat hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, determining the perinatal effects of malaria in early pregnancy, and elucidate the determinants of stunting in infants and young children.

Memberships

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research

  • Pediatric Global Health Fellowship Educators

  • Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics

  • AAP Section on Global Health

Education 

  • Undergraduate

    Vanderbilt University

  • MPH

    UNC Chapel HIll

  • Medical School

    Boonshoft Wright State University School of Medicine

  • Residency

    University of California - San Diego

  • Fellowship

    UNC Chapel Hill

  • DTM&H

    London School of Hygiene- Tropical Medicine