Melva T. Covington MPH, MBA, PhD

Dr. Covington specializes in building and deploying stakeholder and patient engagement models with supporting measurement and training infrastructure to improve health outcome strategies. Her goal is to apply these insights in strategic and innovative ways to address complex issues within healthcare systems, organizations, and communities. Much of her work focuses on population-based health disparities in outcomes, operations management, and cultural competency models.

She has an A.B. in Politics/Economics from The Catholic University of America, Masters of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University. Melva has authored numerous publications, is an avid public speaker and serves as a mentor to youth throughout the United States.