Malinee Neelamegam, PhD, MPH, MBA

Malinee Neelamegam is a public health researcher and health equity leader dedicated to ensuring that immigrant communities, particularly South Asian populations, are seen, heard, and served by the systems meant to protect their health. As a faculty member at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, she leads community-engaged research on immigrant health, aging and chronic disease disparities, with a focus on populations historically excluded from research and policy.

A first-generation high school graduate from Malaysia, Malinee's commitment to health equity is rooted in lived experience. She understands firsthand how poverty, structural inequity and conditional belonging shape health across a lifetime. That understanding drives everything she builds.

Malinee is the founder of the WRITE Institute, a program that builds writing and dissemination capacity for community partners and first-generation scholars, because she believes that writing is a health equity issue.