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