Having secured millions of dollars in private and federal funding and published in excess of 200 manuscripts, Elbert D. Glover, PhD is a prolific researcher and writer who researches and develops public health

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...

 strategies related to tobacco addiction

Substance dependence

The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders does not use the word addiction at all. It explains:...

 and smoking cessation

Smoking cessation

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. Dr Glover has appeared on many television programs, including Dateline

Dateline

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, 20/20

20/20

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, The Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose

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 Show, Good Morning America

Good Morning America

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, PM Magazine, Health Talk America, MD-TV, CBS

CBS

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 Morning News, Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...

 News World Report, and NBC

NBC

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 Evening News. His research has been featured in numerous popular publications such as Ladies Home Journal, Newsweek, Readers Digest, Seventeen, Time, and USA Today.

A native of Texas, Glover is a 1969 graduate of Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...

. He received a masters degree from Texas A&I University in 1972 and a PhD from Texas Woman's University in 1977. He has taught at Oklahoma State University, Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...

, Texas Woman's University

Texas Woman's University

Texas Woman's University is a co-educational university in Denton, Texas, United States with two health science center branches in Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas...

, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, commonly known as the UNT Health Science Center and abbreviated UNTHSC, is a graduate-level institution of the University of North Texas System...

, Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

, the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...

, East Carolina University

East Carolina University

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, and West Virginia University

West Virginia University

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. Currently he is Professor of Public Health and Chairman of the Department of Public and Community Health at the University of Maryland at College Park School of Public Health. Among Dr Glover's many accomplishments, he is publisher and owner of the American Journal of Health Behavior; he is the founder and past president of the American Academy of Health Behavior

American Academy of Health Behavior

The American Academy of Health Behavior was founded in 1997 to “transform the health promotion and health education field from a teaching- and service-centered profession to one with a stronger research foundation in which discovery would be valued as a means of improving practice and enhancing...

(AAHB), and in 2003 received the AAHE Distinguished Scholar Award.

External links

• Glover's faculty webpage