Melissa Anne DuBois, PhD, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CE, LC

Melissa Anne DuBois, PhD, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CE, LC, is an accomplished perinatal nurse, nursing professor, nurse researcher, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor in Central Massachusetts. Melissa Anne earned a BSN from the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006 and a PhD in Nursing from the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Chan Medical School in 2026. She has extensive nursing experience in various perinatal settings, including inpatient labor, delivery, postpartum, well-nursery, and high-risk antepartum units, as well as outpatient OBGYN offices, homebirth, and home visiting. She also worked as a maternity clinical instructor, teaching associate, and research assistant through the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing before becoming an Assistant Professor in their Direct Entry MSN program. Her research focuses on the effects of obstetric violence on patient and public health, as well as the secondary trauma and moral injury that can arise from witnessing obstetric violence as a perinatal nurse. She is passionate about women's health and reproductive justice, informed choice in childbirth, respectful maternity care, trauma-informed care, non-pharmacological bedside labor support skills, and nursing education.