Melissa McPheeters is the senior director for Analytics at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute. She also serves as an adjunct research professor in the department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is an epidemiologist and public health informatician with more than two decades of experience in health services research, clinical and public health informatics, medicine and data science. Her expertise includes building multidisciplinary teams to address complex problems across health and public health and modernizing data systems and processes.