Melanie Taylor, MD , MPH

CAPT, USPHS, Medical Epidemiologist, Division of HIV Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Melanie Taylor MD, MPH is an infectious disease/internal medicine physician, a Captain in the US Public Health Service and a Medical Epidemiologist for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of HIV Prevention. Dr. Taylor is a practicing physician at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center and is a clinical associate professor with the University of Arizona College of Medicine Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine. During 2016-2020, she was assigned to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva Switzerland to lead global efforts to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of syphilis and HIV. She now serves as a member of the WHO Global Validation Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis (EMTCT). She is currently assigned by CDC to the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Maricopa County Health Department where she assists with STD, HIV and congenital syphilis prevention and treatment at the public STD clinic.