Melinda S. Meade

Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Geography
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology

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Campus Office: 217 Saunders
Campus Phone Number: (919) 962-3922

Melinda Meade is a population and medical geographer who studies the cultural ecology of population and health. She has strong interests in the emergence of new diseases from destabilized cultural ecologies and in issues of population pressure, using micro-level population mobility to connect habitat conditions, human influence on the land, developmental changes, and emerging diseases. She has worked on population resettlement in the rain forests of Malaysia, the disappearance of malaria in the US, and the diffusion of disease through population settlement systems. Currently she is interested especially in the urbanization of the human population and the changes in ecologies of health that will result, including those related to the urbanization of dogs and their role in human well-being.

Information updated on 4/20/2012