Daniel L. Howard, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Health Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for Health,
Social, and Community Research (IHSCR) at Shaw University
www.ihscr.org. Dr. Howard received his Bachelor’s Degree in
Economics from the University of Michigan College of Literature,
Sciences, and Arts in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Education and Human
Development specializing in Policy Development and Program
Evaluation at Vanderbilt University Peabody College of Education and
Human Development in 1992. His graduate work was funded by the
Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship Award, 1987-1991. He also
received a Dissertation Fellowship Award from the Social Science
Research Council Program on the Urban Underclass in
1991-1992.
Dr. Howard completed two-year postdoctoral
training at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and
School of Social Work as a Paul Cornely and Ford Foundation
Postdoctoral Scholar in 1994. He also completed two-year
postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill (UNC-CH) Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research (Sheps
Center) as a Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellow funded by
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National
Research Service Award in 1998. He has been appointed (2002-2007)
and re-appointed (2007-2012) as a Research Fellow at the UNC-CH
Sheps Center.
Dr. Howard’s research interests include the
examination of epidemiologic patterns of health outcomes that
disproportionately affect African Americans; minority health and
health disparities; health services; and, health policy. He has
numerous scientific, peer-reviewed manuscripts in prominent journals
such as Academic Medicine, African American Research
Perspectives, American Journal of Men’s Health, American Journal of
Obstetrics/Gynecology, American Journal of Public Health,
Family Medicine, Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Services
Research, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Humbolt Journal
of Social Relations, Journal of Aging and Health, Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the
American Board of Family Medicine, Journal of Health Disparities
Research and Practice, Journal of the Medical Library Association,
Journal of the National Medical Association, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Substance
Abuse, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Journal of Women and
Aging, Medical Care, Nursing Research, Progress in Community Health
Partnerships: Research Education and Action, Public Health Reports,
Research on Aging, and Substance Use and Misuse.
Dr. Howard has actively participated as a
Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, and
Co-Investigator on grant research funded by the National Institutes
of Health (NIH): National Center on Minority Health and Health
Disparities (NCMHD), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR),
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on
Aging (NIA), and Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the United States Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS): Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),
and, AHRQ; and, the United States Department of Defense (DoD), which
pertain to health services, minority health, and racial health
disparities research. He has received grant awards that have
totaled over $25 million dollars.
Dr. Howard is a founding member of the
executive committee for the Academy for Health Equity
www.academyforhealthequity.org, an association of academicians,
researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals dedicated to
the elimination of health disparities through the intellectual and
collaborative exchange of research, policy, medical, and public
health interventions. In 2009, he was invited to serve on the Wake County (Raleigh,NC) Human Services Health Disparities Task Force. In 2008, he was invited to serve on the
editorial boards of the journals, Healthy Aging and Clinical Care
in the Elderly as well as Risk Management and Healthcare
Policy. In 2007, he was invited to serve on the external advisory board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, funded by the NIH NCMHD Centers of Excellence program, 2007- 2012. He was also invited to serve on and elected chairman of the external advisory board of the Winston-Salem State University Center of Excellence for the Elimination of Health Disparities, funded by the NIH NCMHD Centers of Excellence program, 2007- 2012. Finally, in 2007, he was invited to serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. In
2006, he received the National Role Model Researcher Award
from Minority Access, Inc., a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization
with a cooperative agreement with the U.S. DHHS to increase the pool
of minority biomedical researchers by identifying individual and
institutional role models. In 2001, he received the Historically
Black College and University Spotlight on Excellence
Administrator/Faculty Award from Black Voices Quarterly Magazine
www.blackvoices.com and General Motors Corporation.
In 2002, Shaw University, with Dr. Howard as
Principal Investigator, was the only university in the nation to
attain two of the three NIH NCMHD Centers of Excellence program
funding mechanisms (P60 and R24). The Centers of Excellence were
established to develop novel programs across America, Puerto Rico,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands that would make significant advances and
contributions to easing the health burden in underserved populations
and in reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities in
several priority diseases and conditions
www.ncmhd.nih.gov. It was noted by the 2004 P60 external
scientific program advisory committee of national experts that the “UNC-CH-Shaw
Partnership should be viewed as the “showcase” model for addressing
health disparities.” In 2007, Shaw University, with Dr. Howard as Principal Investigator, was the only university in the nation to partner with two NIH NCMHD P60 Centers of Excellence Research I Level Universities (UNC-CH and Johns Hopkins University).
On December 5, 2008, the IHSCR faculty and
research staff moved into its new $5.4 million, 30,400 square foot
research facility on Shaw University’s campus which was initiated
and facilitated by Dr. Howard’s research infrastructure improvement
grant.
Contact Information:
Daniel L. Howard, Ph.D.
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Office Phone: (919) 755-7292
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Fax: (919) 755-7298
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E-mail:
howardd@shawu.edu
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Mailing Address: the IHSCR at Shaw University, 125 E. South Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
