Melina Hill Walker is a Program Director at the Endowment for Health where she manages a portfolio of grants, projects and policy initiatives to advance health equity.

Prior to her appointment at the Endowment, Melina was the program leader for the Aging Resource Center at the Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging. Before that, she was the grants and special projects coordinator for Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire.

Melina also has extensive experience in a variety of research and project coordination roles at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Earlier in her career, she ran an independent health care consultancy.

Melina also served as a senior community health planner at the United Hospital Fund in New York City and prior to that, worked for five years in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a public health Peace Corps volunteer and program assistant to the Directors at the Kinshasa School of Public Health (Ecole de Sante Publique) at the University of Kinshasa.

Melina holds a Master of Science in Health Policy & Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in English/American Literature from Brown University. She has also served in volunteer and board roles for several academic and nonprofit organizations including Dartmouth Hitchcock, Maynard House (formerly Upper Valley Hostel), and the Hypertherm HOPE Foundation.