Melissa Digo is a Medical Technologist, Educator, Test and Tool Developer and Reviewer, Researcher, Tools Translation consultant, and Trainer and Facilitator. With multidisciplinary background, she is into the medical sciences – a graduate of bachelor’s degree in medical technology and medical technology licensure board passer. Also from the field of education – she taught across school subjects in basic education, across levels of preschool, grade school, and high school; also in home school and in tertiary education. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education, major in Reading (Literacy) Education at UP College of Education which was instrumental to her joining the field of research. At the University of the Philippines Diliman, she worked at the College of Education on nationwide education researches for the Philippines in projects under the Research and Development Foundation of the College of Education, Inc. (RDFCEI) and the Assessment, Curriculum, and Technology Research Center (ACTRC). At the University of the Philippines Manila – Philippine General Hospital, she worked on medical research and was the team leader of the research and training staff for national survey on mental health. Here, she was also the translation team leader for the global mental health tools translation into several major languages of the Philippines, working closely with the Harvard Medical School and the University of Michigan on the World Mental Health tools. Throughout her professional life, she has been a trainer and facilitator, providing trainings and workshops to educators and managers for nationwide test administrations, to enumerators and fieldworkers for survey and field operations for research, to administrators and teachers for strategic planning workshops. She also became a test (tool) reviewer for examinations of schools and accreditation examination of broadcasters in Philippines.
Currently her doctoral studies on research and evaluation is on going at the UP College of Education, where she is also currently teaching as Senior Lecturer in research.
At present, Melissa is University Researcher at the Center for Leadership, Citizenship and Democracy (CLCD) in UP NCPAG. Here, she handled various research projects concerning the country’s agriculture, justice specifically on parole and probation, civic education, and others in the previous years. Currently, the projects she is handling are as follows where she is the lead researcher and coordinator for these projects/programs and activities of the center this 2024-2025:
- The UP NCPAG-FVR Leadership Fellowship Program (2024-2025)
- The 13th International Society for Third-Sector Research Asia-Pacific Regional Conference (2025)
- Segmentation of Local Government Unit’s Capacity in Local Infrastructure Governance – research with DILG. (2024-2025)
