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Lynette J. Menezes

Lynette J. Menezes, PhD

Associate Vice President International, USF Health

Associate Dean International, Morsani College of Medicine

Co-Director, Scholarly Concentration in International Medicine

Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

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Education

  • PhD, Public Health, University of South Florida, 2003

Biography

Dr. Lynette Menezes is a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine and serves as the Associate Vice President of International for USF Health and Associate Dean of International at the Morsani College of Medicine. With the goal of training the next generation of global health ambassadors, doctors, and leaders, Dr. Menezes leads global efforts at the Morsani College of Medicine and across the USF Health Colleges of nursing, pharmacy, and public health. She has more than two decades of experience building and supporting international programs, faculty, and student exchange in over 40 countries across the world. As the founding Director of USF Medicine International and now as the Associate Dean, Dr. Menezes has been instrumental in establishing affiliations with more than 50 academic institutions across the globe. She has extensive experience building the capacity of physicians, health care providers and public health professionals in India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. Under her leadership, more than 300 Indian physicians and public health professionals have been trained in HIV/AIDS prevention and management as well as ethical issues related to health research. Additionally, Dr. Menezes has been involved in building the capacity of senior leadership as well as subspecialists of hospitals in China and Thailand with more than 200 physicians and administrators trained through these programs. Dr. Menezes founded the International Medicine Scholarly concentration for medical students which she co-directs and has pioneered a robust medical student exchange program between USF and 29 academic institutions that involves research as well as clinical training. Dr. Menezes’ research and academic interests include the epidemiology and transmission of HPV particularly among HIV-infected individuals and increasing screening and HPV vaccination with the goal of eliminating cervical cancer. Her interests also span other infectious diseases and ethical issues related to human participant research. She has numerous presentations, book chapters, edited books and peer-reviewed publications in these areas.

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

  • Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease

Awards/Honors

  • Outstanding USF College of Public Health Alumni Award (University of South Florida College of Public Health - 2022)
  • Global Excellence Award (USF World, University of South Florida - 2022)
  • Nominee, 2021 Florida Outstanding Woman in Public Health (University of South Florida College of Public Health - 2021)
  • Outstanding Student Organization Advisor (University of South Florida - 2021)
  • Alpha Omega Alpha (Alpha Omega Alpha Gamma Chapter, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine - 2016)
  • Elected Member, Robert Good Honor Society (Morsani College of Medicine - 2024)
  • Delta Omega (National Public Health Honor Society - 2007)
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (Division of Infectious Disease, College of Medicine, University of South Florida - 2004)

Memberships

  • Elected Member (Committee on Foreign Relations, Tampa Bay, 2012 - Present)
  • Member (International Papillomavirus Society, 2011 - Present)
  • Member (International AIDS Society, 2006 - Present)
  • Advisory Board Member (Florida Center for Survivors of Torture and Refugee Services, Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, 2002 - Present)
  • Member (American Public Health Association, 1999 - Present)
  • Member (Global Health Council, 2001 - 2012)

Recent Publications

  • Somboonwit C, Menezes LJ, Holt D, Sinnott JT & Shapshak P. Current views and challenges on clinical cholera Bioinformation. 13(12) : 405-409, 2017.
  • Wei F, Xia N, Ocampo R, Goodman MT, Hessol NA, Grinsztejn B, Ortiz AP, Zhao F, Kojic EM, Kaul R, Heard I, Morhason Bello IO, Moscicki AB, de Pokomandy A, Palefsky JM, Rodrigues LLS, Mandishora RSD, Ramautarsing RA, Franceschi S, Godbole SV, Tso FK, Menezes LJ, Lin C, Clifford GM. Age-specific prevalence of anal and cervical HPV infection and high-grade lesions in 11 177 women by HIV status: a collaborative pooled analysis of 26 studies. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiac108. , 2022.
  • Liu P, Shen L, Wang S, Qin P, Si Y, Pan M, Zeng W, Qin Y, Chen X, Zhang Y, Li C, Xiang Z, Menezes L, Huang Y, Cui L, Yang Z. Increasing proportions of relapsing parasite species among imported malaria in China''s Guangxi Province from Western and Central Africa Med Infect Dis. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102130 PubMed PMID: 34166802. , 2021.
  • Vakos A, Khalil N, Kumar A, Menezes L, Ahson M. Assessment of Growth in Pediatric Syrian Refugee Populations in Jordan Avicenna J Med. 11(4) : 167-171, 2021.
  • Yang H, Wang J, Liu H, Zhao Y, Lakshmi S, Li X, Nie R, Li C, Wang H, Cao Y, Menezes L, Cui L. Efficacy and Safety of a Naphthoquine-Asithromycin Coformulation for Marlaria Prophylaxis in Southeast Asia: A Phase 3, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial Clin Infect Dis. 73(7) : e2470-2476, 2021.
  • Wu Y, Soe MT, Aung PL, Zhao L, Zeng W, Menezes L, Yang Z, Kyaw MP, Cui L. Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum cases and molecular surveillance of drug resistance genes in Western Myanmar Malar J. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03376-5. PMID: 32854686. 19(1) : 304, 2020.
  • Pedapudi AD Davis RA Rosenberg P Koilpillai P Balasubramanya B Johnson AR Kumar A Menezes L. Overweight and obesity among school-going adolescents in Bengaluru, South India Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine. DOI: 10.4103/IJCFM.IJCFM_70_19. 6(1) : 28-33, 2020.
  • Zhao Y, Wang L, Soe MT, Aung PL, Wei H, Liu Z, Ma T, Huang Y, Menezes LJ, Wang Q, Kyaw MP, Nyunt MH, Cui L, Cao Y Molecular surveillance for drug resistance markers in Plasmodium vivax isolates from symptomatic and asymptomatic infections at the China-Myanmar border. PubMed Central. , 2020.
  • Wu Y, Soe MT, Aung PL, Zhao L, Zeng W, Menezes L, Yang Z, Kyaw MP, Cui L Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine for treating uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum cases and molecular surveillance of drug resistance genes in Western Myanmar PubMed Central. 19: 304, 2020.
  • Zhao Y, Liu Z, Soe MY, Wang L, Soe TN, Wei H, Than A, Aung PL, Li Y, Zhang X, Hu Y, Wei H, Zhang Y, Burgess J, Siddiqui FA, Menezes L, et, al. Genetic Variations Associated with Drug Resistance Markers in Asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum Infections in Myanmar Genes. 10(9) : 692, 2019.
  • Aung PL, Pumpaibool T, Soe TN, Burgess J, Menezes LJ, Kyaw MP, Cui L. Health education through mass media announcements by loudspeakers about malaria care: prevention and practice among people living in a malaria endemic area of northern Myanmar Malar J. 18(1) : 362, 2019.
  • Lin C, Slama J, Gonzalez P, Goodman MT, Xia N, Kreimer AR, Wu T, Hessol NA, Shvetsov Y, Ortiz AP, Grinsztejn B, Moscicki AB, Heard I, Del Refugio González Losa M, Kojic EM, Schim van der Loeff MF, Wei F, Longatto-Filho A, Mbulawa ZA, Palefsky JM, Sohn AH, Hernandez BY, Robison K, Simpson S Jr, Conley LJ, de Pokomandy A, van der Sande MAB, Dube Mandishora RS, Volpini LPB, Pierangeli A, Romero B, Wilkin T, Franceschi S, HidalgoTenorio C, Ramautarsing RA, Park IU, Tso FK, Godbole S, D''Hauwers KWM, Sehnal B, Menezes LJ, Heráclio SA, Clifford G Cervical determinants of anal HPV infection and high-grade anal lesions in women: a collaborative pooled analysis Lancet Infect Dis. 19(8) : 880-891, 2019.
  • Menezes LJ, Pokharel U, Sudenga SL, Botha MH, Zeier M, Abrahamsen ME, Glashoff RH, Engelbrecht S, Schim van der Loeff MF, van der Laan LE, Kipping S, Taylor D, Giuliano AR. Patterns of prevalent HPV and STI co-infections and associated factors among HIV-negative young Western Cape, South African women: the EVRI trial. Sexually transmitted infections. , 2017.
  • Menezes LJ Poongulali S Tommasino M Lin HY Kumarasamy N Fisher KJ Saravanan S Gheit T Ezhilarasi C Jeeva A Lu B Guiliano A. Prevalence and concordance of human papillomavirus infection at multiple anatomic sites among HIV-infected women from Chennai, India Int J STD AIDS. 27(7) : 543-53, 2016.
  • Chenneville T, Menezes L, Kosambiya J, and Baxi . A Case Study of the Resources and Functioning of Two Research Ethics Committees in India Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. , 2016.
  • Menezes LJ, Morano JP, Mundra L. Human Papilloma Virus In Global Virology I: Identifying and Investigating Viral Diseases, Springer Publications (P Shapshak, JT Sinnott, C Somboonwit & J Kuhn eds.). : 15-43, 2015.
  • Menezes LJ, Jang SE, Ross DJ, Glaser AD, Varghese R. Prevalence and Concordance of Human Papillomavirus Infection at Multiple Anatomic Sites Among HIV-infected Women from Chennai, India Int J STD AIDS OnlineFirst (doi: 10.1177/0956462415587226). , 2015.
  • Hooper MD, Linkowski LC, Menezes L, Messler J Summer without Shelter in Tampa During COVID-19 AMA J Ethics. 23(11) : e898-904, 2021.
  • Luo, Emily|Menezes, Lynette|Huang, S. Joseph|Lin, Chi-Wei|Hung, Wei-Chieh Chronic Hepatitis B and Muscle Mass: Age‐Specific Associations in a Taiwanese Cohort Geriatrics and Gerontology International [14441586]. 25(12) , 2025.
  • Aboujaoude, Michael|Dillinger, jean-guillaume|Menezes, Lynette|BOCHATON, Thomas|SCHURTZ, Guillaume|Trimaille, Antonin|Gall, Emmanuel|Picard, Fabien|Roule, Vincent|Roubille, Francois|Henry, Patrick|Toupin, Solenn|Pezel, Theo PROGNOSTIC IMPACT OF RECREATIONAL DRUG USE ON MAJOR ADVERSE CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS AMONG ACS PATIENTS AT ONE-YEAR POST-ICCU DISCHARGE IN FRANCE Journal of the American College of Cardiology [07351097]. 85(12) , 2025.
  • Zeng, Weilin|Liu, Huaie|Malla, Pallavi|Zhao, Yan|Menezes, Lynette|Cao, Yaming|Wang, Chengqi|Yang, Zhaoqing|Cui, Liwang Efficacy of Primaquine for the Radical Cure of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Northeast Myanmar and the Impact of Cytochrome P450 2D6 Genotypes Clinical Infectious Diseases [10584838]. 81(2) , 2025.
  • Dumitriu Carcoana, Allison|Milani, Doniya|Heideman, Emily|Ngo, Jillian|Guerra, Lucy|Oxner, Asa|Kumar, Ambuj|Menezes, Lynette Impact of Itemized Versus Open Menu of Available Supplies and Services on Utilization of Street Medicine Program Resources – A Pre-post Study Community Health Equity Research & Policy [2752535X]. , 2025.
  • Aheto, Justice Moses K.|Menezes, Lynette J.|Takramah, Wisdom|Cui, Liwang Modelling spatiotemporal variation in under-five malaria risk in Ghana in 2016–2021 Malaria Journal [14752875]. 23(1) , 2024.
  • Xiang, Zheng|Zhou, Longcan|Pan, Maohua|Qin, Yucheng|Bai, Yao|Qin, Pien|Zeng, Weilin|Wei, Xiaosheng|Lu, Yuxin|Somboonwit, Charurut|Menezes, Lynette|Huang, Yaming|Cui, Liwang|Yang, Zhaoqing An imported malaria case with repeated episodes of neurological syndromes resulting from different Plasmodium species BMC Infectious Diseases [14712334]. 24(1) , 2024.