Melanie Nadeau PhD, MPH | Emily Bartlett, MD

Dr. Melanie Nadeau, aka Dr. Mel, is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, North Dakota.  She completed both her Master of Public Health in community health education with a concentration in health disparities and her PhD in social/behavioral epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Dr. Mel is a community led scholar and has worked more than 19 years on various research and evaluation projects within the American Indian community. She has successfully engaged a multitude of tribal health stakeholders from across the nation and is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Native communities.  Dr. Mel currently serves on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Research Review Board, as program co-chair for the American Evaluation Association Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group, on the American Public Health Association American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian board, and co-chairs the Tribal Health Data workgroup for the North Dakota Department of Health.  Dr. Mel also serves as Interim Chair, Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor for the Indigenous Health PhD program at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Dr. Emily Bartlett currently works as an emergency medicine physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center. She completed her MD at the University of Chicago and residency in emergency medicine at the University of Washington / Harborview program in June 2020, where she completed the population health track and served as chief resident. She also co-chaired the University of Washington’s Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee, where she led initiatives to improve engagement of trainees in the institution’s quality and safety processes, and to utilize quality improvement methods to address health disparities. In her current role, she remains deeply committed to applying quality improvement methods and evidence-based medicine to strengthen systems of emergency care in low-resource settings to improve patient outcomes and advance health equity.