Donna E. Howard, Dr.PH.

Bio

Dr. Howard received her doctorate in Public Health from the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1994. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Minority Health Research in Baltimore, Maryland. Howard also holds a B.S. in Human Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a M.P.H. from the University of Hawaii in Manoa, where her area of concentration was International Health and Cross-Cultural Health. In the Fall 1998, Howard joined the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Currently, she is an investigator in the Laboratory for Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention and collaborator in the Seat Pleasant -University of Maryland Partnership for Health.

Dr. Howard has a strong interest in community-based health education programs and has worked internationally and nationally in pursuit of community empowerment goals . In 1980, she traveled to Southeast Asia to study the integration of nutrition education programs into the primary healthcare program in Bali, Indonesia. More recently, Howard lived and worked in Grenada, West Indies for two years coordinating community health education and nutrition programs for the Grenada Food and Nutrition Council.