Biography:

Kelli McCormack Brown, Ph.D., has a Master of Science and Education in Public Health from the University of Toledo, a Ph.D. in Health Education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and is a Certified Health Education Specialist. In 2006, Brown was named the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Health and Human Performance. Prior to this she was the Interim Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of South Florida. She was a professor in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida for 10 years, the Department Chairperson at Illinois State University, Department of Health Sciences from 1994-96, and a faculty member at Western Illinois University from 1987-94.

Brown's research interests include school and community partnerships, prevention (social) marketing, and oral health of children and youth. While at USF she was a co-principal investigator in the University of South Prevention Research Center, Community-Based Prevention Marketing (CBPM): Building Local Capacity for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the Sarasota Demonstration Project Director.  She worked on projects in which social marketing has been used in community and school settings. She was the principal investigator for Florida's statewide social marketing campaign, Florida Cares for Women, to increase breast and cervical cancer screening utilization, and worked with the Seminole women of Florida in developing culturally appropriate breast and cervical cancer materials. She has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more than $7.5 million of federal and state grants.

Brown is active in several professional health education organizations and is a reviewer for the American Journal for Health Behavior, Health Behavior and Research, and Health Promotion Practice as well as on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of School Health and the Social Marketing Quarterly. She is the co-editor of the Health Promotion Practice’s social marketing and health communication column.  She is a Fellow of both the American School Health Association and American Association for Health Education. An accomplishment she is most proud of is being named the 2001 Outstanding Teacher from the public health students at USF.

Research Interests:

• • Adolescent health
• • Children’s oral health
• • Community and school health partnerships
• • Social (prevention) marketing and public health