Elbert Glover

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Having secured millions of dollars in private and federal funding and published in excess of 200 manuscripts, Elbert D. Glover, PhD is a distinguished and prolific researcher and writer. For more than two decades he has been at the forefront of research and development of public health strategies related to tobacco addiction and smoking cessation. Dr Glover has appeared on many television programs, including Dateline, 20/20, The Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, PM Magazine, Health Talk America, MD-TV, CBS Morning News, Peter Jennings News World Report, and NBC 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. 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 Woman's University, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Texas A&M University, the University of Kansas, East Carolina University, and West Virginia University. 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 (AAHB), and in 2003 received the AAHE Distinguished Scholar Award.