Melinda Lopez MD, MPH

Melinda Lopez, MD, MPH, is the reproductive medicine director at the Center for Women’s Health at People’s Community Clinic in Austin and a member of the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Taskforce. She earned a dual MD/MPH degree at the University of North Carolina (UNC) medical school in conjunction with the Department of Nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Health. During her obstetrician-gynecology residency at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, she founded a clinic for survivors of human trafficking and worked to raise awareness of the topic among physicians and health care providers.