Dr. Wathington currently serves as president-elect of the American Public Health
Association (APHA). She is the clinical director at REACHUP, Inc., an affiliate
professor at the University of South Florida College of Public Health and the
executive director of the Consortium of African American Public Health
Programs. She previously served as the founding dean of the Bethune-Cookman
University College of Health Sciences, Associate Dean for Academic and Student
Affairs at the USF College of Public Health, founding Associate Dean for
Academic Enrichment at the USF College of Medicine and as the Director of the
Office of Minority Health at the Florida Department of Health