Jeannine Melly

Jeannine Melly, MPH, is Deputy Director of the Social Work Leadership Institute at The New York Academy of Medicine.

Ms. Melly has been with the Social Work Leadership Institute since July 2005. Prior to SWLI, Jeannine worked with NYAM’s Division of Health Policy since March 2003. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from the Hunter College School in Urban Public Health and a Bachelors degree in Social Work from Livingston College, Rutgers University. Jeannine’s work prior to the New York Academy of Medicine was in social work, program development and fund raising. She worked for 13 years with a non-profit in New Jersey developing and running housing programs for people living with HIV. Jeannine has also provided direct services to inmates, the homeless and women with substance use difficulties. Jeannine currently is a volunteer with ALS in New York City and chair of the HIV Law Project Board of Directors, and previously was a member of the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network's Board of Directors.

Contact information: (212) 822-7346; jmelly@nyam.org

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