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Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Michelle Debbink, MD/PhD received her bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Health Policy from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Debbink completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the University of Michigan in 2017, and completed her Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Utah in 2020.
Following completion of Fellowship, she was awarded the Reproductive Scientist Development Program Scholarship, a nationally-competitive K12 award funded in part by the NIH and multiple not-for-profit groups focused on improving reproductive health. As the RSDP March of Dimes Scholar, Dr. Debbink's research focuses on racial, ethnic, and geographic inequities in perinatal outcomes, particularly with respect to Utah Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Native American populations, who are disproportionately affected. Dr. Debbink is particularly interested in how social structures, neighborhood factors, and health policy can produce both health risk or resiliency and reproductive justice or injustice. She approaches all of her work - whether clinical, educational, or research - through a reproductive justice lens. Through research and practice, Dr. Debbink seeks to collaborate on efforts to reinforce and build resilient communities for all pregnant and parenting folks and their families.