Mellie was trained in the USA and has a specialty in Family Medicine with an interest in Obstetrics and Gynecology, which suits the work conducted by the Maternal and Child Health team at SMRU very well.  Mellie has broad interests with recent energy directed towards plasmodium vivax in pregnancy and post-partum and how to optimize the use of primaquine in this part of the human life cycle. Mellie also believes in strengthening the ability of local staff to provide quality local health care.