Melissa Stockton, MSPH, Ph.D

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry

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3535 Market St
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (International Affairs, Global Public Health)
The George Washington University, 2013.
MSPH (Epidemiology)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018.
Ph.D. (Epidemiology)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020.
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Selected Publications

Dussault JM, Akiba C, Zimba C, Malava J, Akello H, Stockton M, Mbota M, Matewere M, Masiye J, Udedi M, Gaynes BN, Go VF, Hosseinipour MC, Pence BW: Evaluating the validity of depression-related stigma measurement among diabetes and hypertension patients receiving depression care in Malawi: A mixed-methods analysis. PLOS Glob Public Health. 3(5), May 2023 Notes: e0001374. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001374. PMID: 37195929.

Greene MC, Kane J, Alto M, Giusto A, Lovero K, Stockton M, McClendon J, Nicholson T, Wainberg ML, Johnson RM, Tol WA.: Psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions to reduce harmful alcohol use in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 5(5), May 2023.

Basaraba CN, Stockton MA, Sweetland A, Medina-Marino A, Lovero KL, Oquendo MA, Greene MC, Mocumbi AO, Gouveia L, Mello M, Dos Santos P, Suleman A, Mabunda D, Mandlate F, Xavier A, Fumo W, Massinga L, Khan S, Feliciano P, Kann B, Salem AF, Bezuidenhout C, Mootz JJ, Duarte CS, Cournos F, Wall MM, Wainberg ML.: Does It Matter What Screener We Use? A Comparison of Ultra-brief PHQ-4 and E-mwTool-3 Screeners for Anxiety and Depression Among People With and Without HIV. AIDS Behav. 27(4), April 2023.

Dussault JM, Zimba C, Akello H, Stockton M, Hill S, Aiello AE, Keil A, Gaynes BN, Udedi M, Pence BW.: Estimating the effect of anticipated depression treatment-related stigma on depression remission among people with noncommunicable diseases and depressive symptoms in Malawi. PLoS One 18(3), March 2023.

Stockton MA, Kraemer J, Oga E, Kimani J, Mbote D, Kemunto C, Njuguna S, Nyblade L.: Validation of a Brief Internalized Sex-work Stigma Scale among Female Sex Workers in Kenya. J Sex Res 60(1): 146-152, January 2023.

Saalim K, Amu-Adu P, Amoh-Otu RP, Akrong R, Abu-Ba'are GR, Stockton MA, Vormawor R, Torpey K, Nyblade L, Nelson LE.: Multi-level manifestations of sexual stigma among men with same-gender sexual experience in Ghana. BMC Public Health 23(1), January 2023.

Kulisewa K, Minnick CE, Stockton MA, Gaynes BN, Hosseinipour MC, Mphonda S, Sansbury G, Udedi MM, Pence BW.: The acceptability of antidepressant treatment in people living with HIV in Malawi: A patient perspective. Glob Public Health 18(1), January 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1080/17441692.2023.2201327. PMID: 37088107.

Poku OB, Eschliman EL, Entaile P, Rampa S, Mehta H, Tal D, Silvert L, Li T, Becker TD, Govindasamy D, Stockton MA, Adedimeji A, Ho-Foster A, Blank MB, Dangerfield DT 2nd, Yang LH, Murray SM.: "It's Better If I Die Because Even in the Hospital, There is a Stigma, People Still Gossip": Gossip as a Culturally Shaped Labeling Process and Its Implications for HIV-Related Stigma in Botswana. AIDS Behav. 27(8): 2535-2547, January 2023.

Oga E, Stockton MA, Stewart C, Kraemer J, Kimani J, Mbote D, Njuguna S, Nyblade L.: Validating a measure of anticipated sex work-related stigma among male and female sex workers in Kenya. Glob Public Health 17(12): 3583-3595, December 2022.

Nyblade L, Stockton MA, Saalim K, Rabiu Abu-Ba'are G, Clay S, Chonta M, Dada D, Mankattah E, Vormawor R, Appiah P, Boakye F, Akrong R, Manu A, Gyamerah E, Turner D, Sharma K, Torpey K, Nelson LE.: Using a mixed-methods approach to adapt an HIV stigma reduction to address intersectional stigma faced by men who have sex with men in Ghana. J Int AIDS Soc 25(1), September 2022.

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