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Whitney Garney, PhD

Whitney Garney
Whitney Garney, PhD

Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

CV (PDF)

Contact

Health Behavior
212 Adriance Lab Rd.
1266 TAMU
College Station , TX 77843-1266
wrgarney@tamu.edu
Phone: 979.436.9765
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Education and Training

  • Texas A&M University, PhD, Health Education
  • Texas A&M Health Science Center, MPH, Social & Behavioral Health
  • Texas A&M University, BS, Health

Research Interests

  • Systems approaches to public health
  • Ecological approaches to public health
  • Public health innovation
  • Program evaluation
  • Community-based participatory research

Teaching Interests

  • Systems Thinking for Public Health (HLTH 690)
  • Advanced Health Behavior Theory
  • Program Evaluation

Awards, Recognition and Service

  • Dr. Garney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior. She is currently PI/Co-PI on~$12 million in external funding and has been PI/Co-PI on approximately $6.5 million in projects for Texas A&M. Her current research projects explore systems approaches to improve adolescent health, evaluating telebehavioural health services delivery across the state of Texas, and implementing community-based approaches to improve cardiovascular health. Dr. Garney is an Associate Editor for Family and Community Health. She is a fellow of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention and serves as a taskforce member for the Workplace Health Steering Committee for the American Heart Association. In 2021, she was received the Early Career Research Excellence Award by the Texas A&M University School of Education and Human Development.