Dr Melissa Kang

Author, doctor, adolescent health & sexuality specialist

Melissa Kang (MBBS MCH PhD) is a medical practitioner and academic specialising in adolescent health. She provides preventive and primary healthcare in a Youth Health service for at-risk young people.

Melissa is an Associate Professor in General Practice at the University of Sydney and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Health at The University of Technology Sydney.

Her research focuses on access to health care and adolescent sexual health. She was the medical consultant for 23 years behind the ‘Dolly Doctor’ column in the Australian teenage girl’s magazine Dolly.

She recently published three books for adolescents (co-authored with media personality Yumi Stynes): Welcome to your Period, Welcome to Consent and Welcome to your Boobs. Their fourth Book, Welcome to Sex, will be out in May 2023.