Whitney Garney, PhD

Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Biography
Education & Focus Areas

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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Biography

Dr. Garney is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and the Research Director for the Texas A&M Telehealth Institute. Since 2015, she has secured (PI/Co-PI) ~$28 million in external funding to further her research. Her research agenda investigates systems approaches to public health prevention and evaluation. Broadly, her projects focus on increasing access to healthcare resources and services for underserved populations. Dr. Garney is a fellow of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention for the American Heart Association. She was selected as the 2021 Early Career Research Excellence Award by the Texas A&M University School of Education and Human Development and awarded the Policy and Systems Efforts for Advancing Health Education and Promotion Award in 2023 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education.

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